Unfiltered Writing Quotes

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don't touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

I do not write for an audience.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.