“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”— Edwin Schlossberg, gurteen.com
“I don't *feel* like a late bloomer, but others have called me that. I published my first essay at 30, when I had a 3yo and a baby and no time, and before that I felt like a lot of people had written me off. But that's just when I figured out what I wanted to say. (My birth father published his first…”— Nicole Chung, twitter.com
“The most important writing tip is that it's very important that u wear a hat when u write because that way the ideas won't fly away!!!”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“Hi a writing thing I've been finding really helpful lately is I outline and organize and elaborate on all my points in my notes app so it feels super casual, then when you copy that over to your Actual Writing Program, you see you've already written so much!! Boom! No more blank page. The cool thing…”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“You don’t need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don’t need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don’t have to claim a soul to promote compassion.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, therumpus.net
“We had someone whose full-time job was saying, "How do we make this into a business?”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“Nick Denton initially hired me to write for a site he was about to launch called Flesh Bot, which was intended to be a site about adult things. I did not want to do that. [Laughs] And fortunately, Elizabeth Spiers retired before that site launched so he instead was like, "Oh, you're here. Just take…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“I always wanted to be a writer when I was younger, but I didn't think it was ever possible, and so I didn't take it seriously or actually even really think about it. This happens, I think, in a lot of fields, including fashion and media and TV, things that seem exciting and far away when you're youn…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“This is boring, but the greatest thing for me — and I see this with young writers sometimes, that they don't have — is I had to write constantly. It was very good on a sentence-by-sentence level and at establishing voice. Most of voice is just a series of crutches applied regularly, and when you're…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“I was an art dealer for a number of years, for a friend, and after that I was blogging for fun on the side. I was co-writing a blog with a friend who lived on the West Coast and learning how to write by writing in public — which, actually, I sort of take for granted now. That was a new thing, then.…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it's the only thing any of us really owns.”— Carole Radziwill, amazon.com
“Part of the magic of writing is somehow believing that your stuff is the best stuff, while also never losing sight of the fact that you’re a piece of shit.”— Kristen Iskandrian, twitter.com
“Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“And now, I’ve spent a decent amount of time writing this piece and saying “this sucks” the whole time but now it’s finished and I wrote a piece so even if it sucks, I created something, which has eased the crankiness I felt earlier.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Writing advice I give, but did not use today: never stare at the screen all day.”— Alexis Coe, twitter.com
“I’m often asked for advice on how to become a better graphic designer, and this is my response: Two things—learn how to do crossword puzzles, and learn how to write.”— Chip Kidd, amazon.com
“If I’m not inspired to write, I don’t. Whether it’s me as a singer or a dancer or a writer or a painter or a filmmaker or on Instagram or a mixtape, everything I do is coming out of a real need. I think Joni Mitchell is the one who said that singing, laughing, and crying come up out of the same need…”— Erykah Badu, vulture.com