Unedited Writing Quotes

Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.

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.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

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.

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

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

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

I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

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.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

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.

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock and six hours have gone by and you're, like, "Whoa! What the hell just happened?" And that piece ends up in the final product even though the final product is three years away. It doesn't get rewritten. It came out the right way. But that's happened to me so few times in my life.