Life Quote by David Shields

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing…

— Howard Jacobson

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

I don't think anybody likes to read people writing horrible stuff about you.

— Darren Bent

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns…

— Sheila Heti

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing