I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. – Anne Frank
The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend large chunks of time thinking. One way to force yourself to slow down and think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking. Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. A lack of understanding becomes visible. – Shane Parrish
Writing a long email is easy; Writing a short one is hard. – Shane Parrish
If I waited for perfection I would never write a word. – Margaret Atwood
Writing helps you think because it gives you nowhere to hide. – Shane Parrish
Good writing is clear thinking made visible. – Bill Wheeler
Writing is the painting of the voice.
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you did not write.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual – Virginia Woolf
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. – Anais Nin
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. – Ernest Hemingway
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
A writer, like an athlete, must ‘train’ every day. What did I do today to keep in ‘form’? – Susan Sontag
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. – Francois- Rene de Chateaubriand
First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. – Richard Bach
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. – J. K. Rowling
The key to great writing is ordinary words and simple sentences. – Shane Parrish
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho
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