Clumsiness Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write,…

— Alan Bennett

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing…

— Peter Orner

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say…

— Jillian Medoff

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just…

— James Dickey