Advice Quote by David Guterson

Writing is something I take very seriously.

— Melody Gardot

The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it…

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

— Lev Grossman

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it.…

— Daniel Kaluuya

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and…

— Maya Angelou

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

— Samuel R. Delany

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard,…

— Anne Lamott

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged…

— Joe Abercrombie

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

— Stan Lee

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

— Jay McInerney

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn