Leo Rosten on Writing
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Katherine Paterson on Writing
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
John Ruskin on Writing
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Irving on Writing
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Writing
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Joan Didion on Writing
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Jesse Stuart on Writing
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Isabel Colegate on Writing
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isaac Asimov on Writing
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - b
Inigo DeLeon on Writing
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.