Books Quote by Jerry Spinelli

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

— Jerry Spinelli

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth…

— Richard North Patterson

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

— Charles King

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about…

— Judy Blume

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

— Tracy Kidder

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a…

— Doris Lessing

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader…

— Cassandra Clare

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you…

— Lee Wyndham

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

— Sudha Murty

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

— Salman Rushdie