Writing Inhibition Quotes

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read something that I wrote, because the last thing I wanna hear is, 'You spelled everything wrong.'

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.