Adjectives Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence…

— Dylan Moran

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling…

— Elif Safak

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

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

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

— Colm Toibin

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

— FKA twigs

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante