Compassion Quote by Allison Janney

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley

“The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on…

— Jonathan Maas

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need…

— Lorin Stein

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and…

— John Patrick Shanley

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not?…

— Junot Diaz

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she…

— Dani Shapiro

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as…

— Anita Desai

Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind…

— Cameron Crowe

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may…

— Thomas Wolfe

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of…

— Ray Bradbury

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

— Emily Carr