Committed Quote by Willem Dafoe

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you…

— Jodi Picoult

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what…

— Jonathan Franzen

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it…

— Mike Birbiglia

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

— Tom Odell

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running.…

— Colm Feore

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than…

— John Cleese

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

— Clarice Lispector

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg