Every artist writes his own autobiography.

- Havelock Ellis

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

- Norman MacCaig

Everybody writes a book too many.

- Mordecai Richler

No person writes to win awards.

- Mo Yan

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

- Lana Del Rey

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

- Josh Bowman

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

- John Allison

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

- Jimmy Chamberlin

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.

- Holliday Grainger

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

- Anne Rice

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

- Gore Vidal

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

- George Bernard Shaw

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

- Eugenio Montale

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

- David Sedaris

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

- Chris Riddell

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

- Casey Wilson

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

- Bonnie Wright

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

- Antonio Munoz Molina

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!

- Amity Gaige