Music Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

— Richard Attenborough

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you…

— Zadie Smith

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.”

— John Irving

“Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.”

— Stephen King

I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want…

— Scott Frank

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow…

— Hilary Mantel

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me…

— Alice Ripley

“A writer is a writer when he says he is.”

— Steven Pressfield

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback,…

— Jesmyn Ward