Writers-on-writing Quote by Christy Hall

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

— William Zinsser

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”

— Hillary Frank

“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to…

— Jeff Goins

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“don't talk about all the things you're going to write; put pen to paper instead.”

— Shirley Johnson

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.”

— Douglas Wilson

“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.”

— Tom Grimes

“Writing is the easiest thing in the world NOT to do.”

— Leigh Goodison