Demand Quote by Jill Alexander Essbaum

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

— Bernard Malamud

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

— Ernest Hemingway

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

— Craig Claiborne

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Sudha Murty

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

— Nick Cave

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less…

— Wayne Dyer

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous