Impulse Quote by James Salter

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

All writing is a process of elimination.

— Martha Albrand

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to…

— W. S. Merwin

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

— Charlie Kaufman

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

— Joss Whedon