Quotes on Writing Things Down

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

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.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.