Causes Quote by Doris Lessing

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

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe.…

— Billie Eilish

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you…

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

If I have experienced something in my life, it's probably going to be written about, and I don't particularly care if the person I'm…

— Finneas

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff