Courses Quote by Jim Woodring

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan