Save Quote by Maureen Dowd

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

— Christopher Isherwood

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

— Zadie Smith

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that…

— Dorothy Parker

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

— LP

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same…

— William Kraft

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

— Clarice Lispector

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don't really write all that well with others.

— Washed Out

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.…

— John Steinbeck