Quote by John D'Agata

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

— Glenn Ligon

“Even when a thought springs fresh in my mind on the subway and solves an essay I’d just about abandoned. On the rare occasion…

— Durga Chew-Bose

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind…

— William Zinsser

“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

“A writer's mind can never be empty.”

— Michael Acciarino

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

“I have no idea what will happen when I write. One night I wrote effortlessly for hours, churning out one brilliant paragraph after another.…

— Rich Ritter

“I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something…

— Moyra Davey

“Writer's block doesn't exist...lack of imagination does.”

— Cyrese Covelli

“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The wonderful thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting. The terrifying thing about writing is that there is always…

— J.K. Rowling