Always Quote by Seamus Heaney

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the…

— Sadie Jones

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

I'm always terrified when I'm writing.

— Mary Karr

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into…

— Alan Garner

There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have…

— Nathan Englander

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

— Anne Tyler

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

— Penelope Cruz

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

— Megan Abbott

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good to do.…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams