I'm always looking for the potential mystery in…

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

— Robert Duvall

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

— Mitch Albom

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We…

— Mitch Albom

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

— Ellen Goodman

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental…

— Ted Hughes

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the…

— Andrae Crouch

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a…

— Jennifer Egan

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

— Richard Price

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

— Michael Lewis

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

— Merlin Mann

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

— Katherine Mansfield

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

— Brit Marling