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Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction: 30th Anniversary Edition

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the cu...

Colson Whitehead

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

Jo Nesbo

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

Ann Hood

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would t...

Al Yankovic

In the minds of some people, writing is one thing, but thinking is quite another. If they define writing as spelling, the production of sentences with random meanings, and punctuation, then they might have a case. But who would accept such a definiti...

Love

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have t...

John Scalzi

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

Generations of Women: In Their Own Words

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

The Writing Class

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Leonard Cohen

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

Robert Crais

Writing is expressing yourself ... You don't write just to amaze you write to entertain, not others but yourself

Mary Rose Magnaye

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Dick Schaap

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Alexis Bledel

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Hugh Prather

Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love.

Debasish Mridha

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Mezrich

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Atul Gawande

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Andrew Vachss

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

Brooke Burke