Causes Quote by Kate Tempest

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

— Bertrand Russell

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you…

— Mini Grey

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

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

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie