Author-quotes Quote by Elinor Florence

“It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.”

— Anne McDonald

“I learn my world through writing.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.”

— Douglas Wilson

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.”

— Richard Bowes

“To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.”

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily