Any Quote by Fred Saberhagen

“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the typewriter. I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as…

— John D'Agata

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or…

— Sara Sheridan

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci