Everything Quote by Ted Dekker

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed…

— Ted Dekker

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

We write to discover what we think.

— Joan Didion

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…

— Rosellen Brown

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always…

— Lee Smith

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

— Laurie Foos