When you're writing you're trying to find out something…

When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what…

— Anonymous

Here's to those who inspire you and don't even know it.

— Anonymous

Ignorance is when you don't know something and someone finds out

— Anonymous

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug…

— George Strait

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

— Jamaica Kincaid

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are…

— Sarah Gadon

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can…

— Lauren Mayberry

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before…

— Craig Zobel

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic,…

— Bryan Fuller

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with…

— Kiese Laymon