Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation—an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with 'I've got to get another play.'

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Writing

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff

Writing

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

Meg Cabot

Writing

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Don DeLillo

Writing

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

Writing

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

Writing

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Natalie Goldberg

Writing

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

Cec Murphy

Writing

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle

Writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anaïs Nin

Writing

Write it badly. Write it now. Edit it later.

Unknown

Writing

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Writing

Writing is a way of life.

Sylvia Plath

Writing

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Joss Whedon

Writing

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

Writing

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

Writing

Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

You can make anything by writing.

C.S. Lewis

Writing

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

Writing

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

David Hare

Writing

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

Writing

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

Writing

Write it badly. Write it now. Edit it later.

Unknown

Writing

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Writing

One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Writing

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Writing

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

Robert Cormier

Writing

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

Cec Murphy

Writing

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

Writing

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E.L. Doctorow

Writing

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

Writing

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

Writing

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

Writing

Neil Simon

Writing

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

Writing

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Natalie Goldberg

Writing

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Writing

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

Writing

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

Writing

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Don DeLillo

Writing

Writing is a way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

Writing

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Writing

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

Writing

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Writing

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"Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation—an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with 'I've got to get another play.'"

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