Know Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

— Salman Rushdie

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

“I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.”

— Sarah Miller

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

“I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot…

— Anne Frank

I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write…

— Ann M. Martin

“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…

— Brenda Ueland

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

“It’s easier to start writing if you have something to write about, rather than staring at a blank screen thinking about nothing because you’re…

— Jarod Kintz