Bad Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was…

— Betty Smith

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

— Heather Sellers

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

— Nick Symmonds

My grandmother passed away before I could get to know her. She had an interest in films and writing. She wrote two novels under…

— Richa Chadha

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it…

— Ace Young

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

— Rupi Kaur

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

— Tony Gilroy

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote…

— Zoe Kazan

“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had ' Visca P.O.U.M.!'…

— George Orwell

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do.…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But…

— Dennis Lehane

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I never took a writing class.

— George Pelecanos

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

— Tom Wolfe