Levels Quote by Erica Jong

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that…

— Robin Pecknold

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

— Kate Bush

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Laura van den Berg

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no…

— David Bowie

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind…

— William Zinsser

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg