Awful Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

— Marc Guggenheim

As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

— Barry Jenkins

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it.…

— Lord Byron

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

— Susan Orlean

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have…

— Michael Piller

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or…

— Anonymous

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all…

— George Saunders

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

— Sarah Dessen

Who has not stared at the blank page and not been able to think of anything to write for what at least felt like…

— Jesse Armstrong

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis