Any Quote by Grandmaster Flash

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

— Wole Soyinka

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had…

— Vito Acconci

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Most words come into being first in speech, then in private writing, and then in public, published writing, which means that if the date…

— Kory Stamper

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my…

— Barry Ritholtz

For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard,…

— Robin Sloan

“My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d recommend wearing…

— Jarod Kintz

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left…

— Eric Hoffer

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite,…

— Jeremy Davies

I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just…

— Judd Apatow