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Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and…

— Lzzy Hale

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by…

— Tobias Wolff

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony,…

— Eric Stoltz

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed…

— Ted Dekker

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June