Better than you Quote by Melissa Febos

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

— Mitch Albom

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my…

— Robyn Davidson

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work…

— Theodora Goss