Principles Quote by Rob Chapman

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

— Caitlin Flanagan

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth

I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally…

— Robert Crais

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find…

— Neil Gaiman

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

— Steve Erickson

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and…

— Scott Spencer

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want…

— Judy Blume