Firsts Quote by Stephen Leacock

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

— Nicole Brossard

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his…

— Christopher Milne

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

— Bill Stout

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

— Richard Bausch

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien