Challenges Quote by Amitava Kumar

“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.”

— Gabriela Pereira

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

— Nora Roberts

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

— Virginia Woolf

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is…

— Francis Picabia

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this…

— Dan Chiasson

“Blank pages are supposed to be an invitation. A challenge, even. Here is your canvas—how creative can you be? What limits can you stretch…

— Francesca Zappia

“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.”

— J.L. Bond

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

— James Salter

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker