Let's face it, writing is hell.

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written.
A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence.

Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive. — William Carlos Williams, Paterson. (New Directions; Revised Edition edition April 17, 1995) Originally published 1946.

One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.

(Could you describe your writing process?) Well, I explained it one time, on radio, as the sensation of being sick in your stomach, in that you suddenly have to throw up, suddenly, you have to vomit. There is no way you can stop it. It has to happen. It's a bodily process in which the material is expelling itself from your body. That's what it feels like to me in a mental or emotional way. Suddenly it's there and it has to be expelled. It's going to come out whether I want it to or not. If I don't have something to write on, it comes out of my mouth. It's got to come out one way or another.

You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Write as if you were dying.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.