People Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

— Anonymous

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

— Daniel Dae Kim

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I…

— Adam Rapp

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 is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often…

— Ha Jin

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

— Dorothy Day

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore