Garbage Quote by Antonin Artaud

“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in…

— Antonin Artaud

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

— Craig Claiborne

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you…

— Jerry Saltz

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement…

— William Zinsser

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them…

— Robert Gottlieb

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

— Michael Ondaatje