Care Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere.…

— Elaine Equi

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to…

— Natalie Goldberg

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write…

— Robert Morgan

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want…

— Julia Glass

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

— Claire Messud

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't…

— Tony Kushner

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

— Edward Hirsch

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at…

— Erma Bombeck