Body Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me…

— Curtis Mayfield

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to…

— Kenzaburo Oe

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount…

— Eddie Vedder

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just…

— Joss Whedon

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still…

— Joel McIver

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave…

— Orson Scott Card

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

— Maya Rudolph

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think…

— Jackie Collins

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe