Communicate Quote by Richard Flanagan

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

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

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate…

— Criss Jami

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest