Arms Quote by Elmer Bernstein

“Writing the good write!”

— J. W. Zulauf

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but…

— Joy Williams

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

— Natalie Goldberg

When I wrote 'Bully,' I was actually writing it. I was playing the beat and I was trying to write with a pen and…

— Ice Spice

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.”

— Shreya Gupta

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

— Larry Wilmore

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

“. In many points, both literary and moral, I could have wished devoutly that he had not written as he has done;”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe