Force Quote by Richard Flanagan

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

— V. S. Naipaul

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

— Ann M. Martin

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest…

— Diane Setterfield

When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.

— William Lashner

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than…

— Ernest Hemingway

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

— Margaret Mitchell

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow