Matter Quote by Isadora Duncan

Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are many, many…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place…

— Meg Rosoff

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a…

— Arthur Hailey

...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

— Norman Mailer

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a…

— Aldous Huxley

“If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

— Jonny Lee Miller

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

— Anonymous