Writing Quotes

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

David Maraniss
- People
- Life
- Perspective
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Mary Karr
- People
- Writing

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

Neal Asher
- Time
- Writing
- Elephant
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

Leslie Jamison
- Long
- Community
- Poverty
I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

Brad Barkley
- Writing
- Serious
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Peter Matthiessen
- Writing
- Attention
O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

Frank McCourt
- People
- Mother
- English
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

Markus Zusak
- Writing
- Book
- Doubt