Ifs Quote by Ian Brown

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

— Anthony Burgess

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

— Emily Saliers

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to…

— Bonnie Friedman

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

— Victor Serge

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we…

— Julio Cortazar

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

— Patrick Marber