You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression… — Mariela Griffor Copy Share Image
I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“I am nowhere near as brave as people believe me to be. As a writer, armed with words, I can do anything,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far." "What… — John Irving (Author Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find… — Peter Arpesella Copy Share Image
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.… — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence;… — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
