I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write,

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

I will never be able to pound words into lines
To match the velocity of your presence

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

I never read. It prevents me from thinking.