Asks Quote by Ian Fleming

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

— Alanis Morissette

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer…

— Raymond Chandler

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

— George Orwell

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

— Anne Carson

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to…

— Stanley Crouch

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

— John Mortimer

In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my…

— Adam Rex

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling