Draws Quote by Tobias Wolff

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

— Norman Mailer

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

— Fay Weldon

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to…

— Jim Rohn

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not,…

— Edward Albee