Always Quote by Ronald Frame

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

— David Milch

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

— Dani Shapiro

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

— James Purdy

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter…

— Jo Nesbo

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

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into…

— Pico Iyer

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of…

— William Zinsser