Doe Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men…

— Tom Waits

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

— James Thurber

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that…

— David Foster Wallace

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know…

— Mem Fox

“To be a writer and know the pain of artistic block is to know real frustration (though it's not quite as bad as constipation)!”

— John D. Rhodes

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies…

— Charles Bukowski

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't have a…

— Anne Lamott