Avoided Quote by Doseone

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an…

— Carly Simon

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is…

— E. L. Doctorow

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

— Eric Hoffer

“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.”

— Henning Mankell

“All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.”

— David Levithan

“Writing and breathing are two things that feel most natural for me.”

— Susan Stovall

“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”

— Hillary Frank

I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend…

— Andrew Bird

“Govern your thoughts such that even in the presence of a closed door, you can switch your focus to an open door.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to…

— Maria Popova