Hard Quote by Lynne Tillman

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

— Warren Buffett

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

— Jeff Hanneman

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

— David Milch

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you…

— Jerry Saltz

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

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

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson