Believe Quote by John Irving

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience…

— Walter Mosley

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

— Ernest Gaines

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air…

— Elie Wiesel

I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the…

— John Irving

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want…

— Richard Conniff

“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as it does,…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I…

— Tobias Wolff

“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch…

— Joe Hill

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection…

— Anita Diament