When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image