Writing Quote by Dodie Smith

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

— Harlan Coben

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

— Jamaica Kincaid

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to…

— Jim Rohn

What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I…

— Lorrie Moore

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette