Matter Quote by Isadora Duncan

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

— Kobo Abe

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

— Elizabeth Bowen

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

— Virginia Woolf

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

— George Bernard Shaw