There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a…

Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character.…

— Mary Wigman

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to…

— Laura Miller

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.”

— Carol Morgan

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

— Gerard Way

I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or…

— Etgar Keret

There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot…

— Joan Didion

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

— Kingsley Amis

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We…

— Matt Haig

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not…

— Thomas L. Dumm