Backward Quote by Paul McCartney

As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward…

— Evie Wyld

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

— Jim Bakker

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

— Nancy Astor

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

— Iggy Pop

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to…

— Michelle Zauner

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman