Home Quote by Katie Dippold

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

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

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

— Edward Hirsch

“Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto…

— Allison M. Dickson

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

— Edwidge Danticat

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

— Alice Mattison

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's…

— Earl Sweatshirt