Guarantees Quote by Jojo Moyes

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and…

— Wallace Shawn

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into…

— Pico Iyer

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for…

— Annie Dillard