Always Quote by Greg Iles

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that…

— Christina Baldwin

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

— Doris McCarthy

“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I could express…

— Tony Gaskins Jr

I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.

— Sudha Murty

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

— Lauren DeStefano

“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act…

— Anne Lamott

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.”

— Cheryl Alleway