Finished Quote by Colin Quinn

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head.…

— Steve Wozniak

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap…

— Masha Gessen

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other…

— Mo Rocca

One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or to convey…

— George Saunders

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just…

— James Dickey

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at…

— Anonymous