Everything Quote by E. L. Doctorow

“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being…

— John Cage

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed…

— Anne Enright

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

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

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

— Terry McMillan

I've got to overcome that tendency to hide what I write or throw it away.

— Tiffany Darwish

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material…

— Taylor Momsen

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

— Tanya Saracho

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

— Ann Patchett

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

— Lauren Groff

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of…

— Tom Waits