Granted Quote by Margaret Atwood

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often,…

— Anthony Doerr

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

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

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher