Down and Quote by John Sandford

You have to go where the good writing is.

— Damian Lewis

If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind,…

— Mary McGrory

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

— Bette Greene

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction…

— Sean Michael Wilson

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be…

— Ray Bradbury

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper and an…

— David Burke

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see…

— George Saunders