Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other,… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write not because I thought writing would bring about change. I simply loved it. Writing, in itself, allowed me… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
“I want to talk about creating your life. There’s a quote I love, from the poet Mary Oliver, that goes: Tell me,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone says, 'I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.” — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“the teacher should model by writing—and think out loud while writing—in front of the class.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character. — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image