Done Quote by Toni Morrison

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

— Toni Morrison

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the…

— Lauren Groff

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off…

— John Ashbery

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for…

— Ava DuVernay