Fats Quote by Ray Romano

“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”

— Stewart Stafford

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

— Isabel Allende

“Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought."…

— Josephine Tey

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

— Aaron Sorkin

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am written off constantly because I am fat, skint, mad and loud.”

— Rae Earl

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

— James McBride

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron