Uninhibited Writing Quotes

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.

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 envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

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.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

I've written some really good songs that I love hungover because I wasn't overthinking it.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

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

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.