Bunch Quote by Billy Joel

I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.

— Liv Bruce

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

— Ron Chernow

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

— Stephen King

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

— Bruce Springsteen

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

— Lloyd Alexander

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet.…

— Svetlana Alexievich