Easy Quote by Homer Hickam

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

— Arlene Croce

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often,…

— Anthony Doerr

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it,…

— Sylvia Plath

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

You just write about things that happen.

— Alan Jackson

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What…

— Cheryl Strayed

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe.…

— Billie Eilish

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that…

— Kelly Link