You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. .… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their… — Edgardo H Pangilinan Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes.… — M.D. Cliatt Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an… — David Gray Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are… — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
“I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books and… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image