Flawed Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

— Will Eisner

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow,…

— Richard Ayoade

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my…

— Kerry Washington

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

— Kate Zambreno

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

— Sheryl Crow