Always Quote by Joan Didion

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

I always write the pieces I want to write.

— Harrison Birtwistle

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

— Larry Wilmore

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante