Bedtime Quote by John Legend

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

— Terry Gilliam

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

— Sophie Hannah

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

— Claire Tomalin

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen