Force Quote by Ray Bradbury

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

— Don DeLillo

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

— Warren Buffett

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it.…

— Daniel Kahneman

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like…

— Donald Miller

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to…

— W. S. Merwin

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali