Writing Quote by Richard Thomas

“My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.”

— Hemingway

“And why not? I’ve always written what you asked me to write.”

— Betty Smith

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“If I want to write something interesting, I must be interested in what I'm writing.”

— Peter Arpesella

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would…

— Nema Al-Araby

“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to…

— Philip Yancey

“I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to…

— Jeff Goins

“I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything.”

— John Corey Whaley

“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.”

— Douglas Wilson

“If your mind jumps to crazy story ideas from little things you see all around you, you might be a writer.”

— Thomas Wilson