Imagine Quote by Joan Didion

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an…

— Oliver Sacks

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so…

— Terry Eagleton

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

— Tom King

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

— Italo Calvino

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in…

— Paul Auster

“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make telephone calls.…

— Judith Barrington

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor