Equipment Quote by H. L. Mencken

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

— Herman Melville

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...

— Kay Redfield Jamison

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing…

— Richard Mitchell

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

— Akhil Sharma