Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun… — Ken Spillman Copy Share Image
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show.… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image