Writing Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening…

— J.R. Tompkins

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.”

— Julie Rodelli

“I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what…

— Samantha Young

“It's a fiendishly difficult thing to do because paper that has been written on doesn't burn easily.”

— Mikhael Bulgakov

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't…

— Dani Shapiro

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from rewriting it…

— Paul Hendrickson

“There is no such thing as wasted writing.”

— Monica Wood