Approach Quote by William Faulkner

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes…

— David Mamet

Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's…

— Melvin Maddocks

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A personal essayist…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

— Nelson Algren

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

— Alan Zweibel

“public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist…

— Dodie Bellamy

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a…

— Robertson Davies

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots…

— Antony Beevor

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov