Believe Quote by John Irving

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say…

— William Zinsser

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

— Margaret Mahy

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 don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

— The D.O.C

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

— Wole Soyinka