Always trying Quote by Martha Ronk

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

— Karl Popper

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Writing has to support itself.

— V. S. Naipaul

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

— Douglas Adams

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

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

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

— Graham Nash

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

— Gail Sher

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury