Advice-to-writers Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

“You can best write about your own experiences.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

— Thomas Metzinger

“The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)”

— Steven Heighton

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and…

— Jeremy Lin

“A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.”

— Sandra Chami Kassis

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing…

— DJ Ashba

“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.”

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

“the best of luck in improving their English writing skills. However, in saying that, it's not up to luck so much as dedication, hard…

— Stephen E. Dew

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills…

— Peter Galison

“Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It doesn’t matter…

— Jason Fried