Baskets Quote by Samuel Beckett

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

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

— Ruskin Bond

I feel it's important to create moments, especially in a time where things are so throwaway.

— Kano

If you write your best, even if you have to throw it out later, it's not wasted effort. You're getting better.

— Anonymous

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

“When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filing…

— Dennis Crosby

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when…

— Kate Braverman

That moment when you don't know what to write

— Kendrick Cole

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the…

— Jack Vance

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev