Analysis Quote by Johann Sebastian Bach

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

— C.P. Cavafy

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

— George Murray

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often…

— Anthony Minghella

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key…

— Sarah Dessen

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow…

— Deena Metzger

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

— Alastair Reynolds

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

— Jose Saramago

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

— Kate Bush

Writing is my hiding place.

— Christel Tait

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my…

— Shirley Ann Grau

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you…

— James Salter