Can do Quote by Joy Williams

“Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

— Joy Williams

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

— Cynthia Ozick

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman