First step Quote by Jewel

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

— Bernard Malamud

The most important thing you can do is to write for yourself.

— Stephenie Meyer

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged…

— Joe Abercrombie

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

— Joel Chandler Harris

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

— Kit Reed

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

Writing is something I can do by myself.

— Peter Coyote

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

— Terrence McNally