About Quote by Greg Fitzsimmons

When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a…

— Benjamin Percy

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that…

— Anonymous

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

— David Mitchell

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your…

— Susan Minot

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can…

— Jesse Andrews

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone.…

— Ali Smith

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow