Ends Quote by Anonymous

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured…

— Margaret Haddix

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

— Carol Kane

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key…

— Sarah Dessen

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

— Ned Beauman

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

— Sheila Heti

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become…

— Brenda Ueland

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

— John Green