Essence Quote by Jasper Fforde

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley

Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence…

— Chuck Wendig

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,…

— Harper Lee

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost