Absolutes Quote by Raymond Chandler

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is…

— George R. R. Martin

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the…

— Douglas Coupland

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think…

— Jackie Collins

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you…

— Stephen King

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

— John Mortimer

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

— Jim Broadbent

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must…

— Henry Miller