All Quotes

Writing is hard.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
‐‐ Marissa Moss

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
‐‐ E. B. White

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
‐‐ Christopher Darden

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
‐‐ John Lutz

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.
‐‐ Aubrey Plaza

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.
‐‐ Crescent Dragonwagon

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

Writing is inherently scary.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
‐‐ Ira Glass

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
‐‐ Karen Traviss

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

Writing is like carrying a fetus.
‐‐ Edna O'Brien

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
‐‐ Paul Desmond

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
‐‐ Bill Simmons

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
‐‐ Moliere

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
‐‐ John le Carre

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
‐‐ Francesca Lia Block

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.
‐‐ Michael Beck

Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
‐‐ Sally Mann

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
‐‐ Annie Baker

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
‐‐ Avi

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
‐‐ Maxine Kumin

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
‐‐ Colbie Caillat

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay