Failing Quote by George Saunders

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

— Markus Zusak

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Laura van den Berg

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

— Natalie Goldberg

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling…

— Brandi Carlile

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

— Erica Jong

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

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should…

— Frank Ocean

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida