Changed Quote by Merlin Mann

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

I went through a long patch where I didn't want to write anything at all. I don't know if that's normal.

— Uncle Kracker

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

— Ron Chernow

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word…

— George Saunders

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic…

— George Saunders

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

— William S. Burroughs

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage