Answers Quote by Paul Haggis

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

— Courtney A. Kemp

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

— Thomas Berger

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow…

— Brian Fallon

“Writers write because they're writers.”

— Brian A. McBride

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

— Katherine Dunn

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura