Action Quote by Edward Gibbon

I was given a pen not to write anything but just to make me feel how it is to hold something full yet untouched.…

— Anonymous

“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a…

— A.J. Dalton

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

— Leo Tolstoy

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've…

— Anthony Lane

If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting…

— Paul G. Tremblay

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to…

— Zawe Ashton

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then…

— Elie Wiesel

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele