Being real Quote by Rita Dove

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an…

— Holly Lisle

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

— Lorrie Moore

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

“I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”

— Garth Marenghi

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz