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“. . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market your writing skills, your wonderful…

— Terry Kennedy

“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and…

— Dani Shapiro

“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is…

— William H. Gass

In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism for wayward…

— Rob Manuel

When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the…

— Mike Bartlett

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live…

— Margaret Atwood

I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually…

— Brad Feld

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and…

— Ruth Ware

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and…

— Philip Yancey

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily…

— Julian Barnes

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that…

— Madeline Sharples