Action Quote by Ralph Ellison

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

— Garth Ennis

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to…

— Mary McCarthy

“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm me so…

— Anonymous

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as…

— Michael Morpurgo

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…

— John Irving

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am at the point of my life where I am realizing that I cannot write about the same shit forever. I just can't.…

— Needa Muy

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

— Walter Mosley

“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on…

— W.G. Sebald

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind…

— John McPhee

I don't feel like I have the greatest memory, so finding selfish motivations for writing things down helps... I'm like, it would be really…

— Gracie Abrams