If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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Jackie Collins
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --
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Anonymous
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
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Nikki Giovanni
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
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Alexei Maxim Russell
...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
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Andrea A. Lunsford
More Quotes By John Irving
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with...
If you care about something you have to protect it — If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
My life is a reading list.
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.
