Becoming-a-writer Quote by Henning Mankell

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

— Stanley Fish

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to…

— Susan Orlean

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

— Anonymous

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

— Amor Towles

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

— Marguerite Young

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

— Amy Winehouse

Had a thing for you, even wrote the song Dreams for you Cause I had dreams for you, thoughts of a ring for you…

— J Colee

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime…

— Beth Henley

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the…

— G-Eazy

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

— Mira Grant