Color Quote by Rita Mae Brown

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and…

— John Irving

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers…

— A.L. Kennedy

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little…

— Anonymous

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the…

— Graham Greene

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

I've never been able to write for myself. I was doing a lot. I produced The Green, I wrote it - I didn't see…

— Paul Marcarelli

“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond