Ashamed Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

— Larry Niven

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red…

— Eleanor Catton

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they…

— Julie Burchill

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the…

— Howard Nemerov

If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the…

— Harry Crews

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

— Stephen King

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

— Natalie Goldberg

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

— Morgan Parker