Belief Quote by Cath Chatto

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

— Tom King

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word…

— George Saunders

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the…

— Christopher Moore

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I…

— Ben Fogle

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

— John Cleese

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your…

— Tom Weston-Jones

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better…

— Jane Yolen