Chinese Quote by Helen Keller

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out,…

— Jorja Smith

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit…

— Cynthia Voigt

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it.…

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and…

— Ngaio Marsh

If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take out the…

— Helen Frost

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

— John Locke

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

— Gerrit Noordzij

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write…

— Martha Ronk