Does Quote by Richard Flanagan

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter,…

— Kenzaburo Oe

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know…

— W. S. Merwin

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well…

— Randy Newman

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is…

— Taylor Swift

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

— Carson McCullers

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

— Sheila Heti

The writing is what's most important to me.

— Billy Lawrence

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important.…

— Rod Serling