Breathe Quote by Toni Cade Bambara

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

— Susan Sontag

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

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end,…

— Julia Cameron

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment…

— H. L. Mencken