All Quotes

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
‐‐ Celia Rivenbark

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
‐‐ Miranda Hart

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
‐‐ Dan Simmons

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
‐‐ Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
‐‐ Anne Frank

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
‐‐ James Joyce

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
‐‐ Shakira

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.
‐‐ Marilyn Nelson

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!
‐‐ Christopher Young

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Writing is a calling, not a choice.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Writing is a communication.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
‐‐ Richard Rhodes

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
‐‐ Hakan Nesser

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
‐‐ Holly Johnson

Writing is a difficult thing.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Writing is a form of licensed madness.
‐‐ Mal Peet

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
‐‐ Daphne Guinness

Writing is a great love of mine.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is a job: you must show up.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!
‐‐ Mini Grey

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
‐‐ Chris Carter

Writing is a lonely business.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

Writing is a lonely profession.
‐‐ Bob Mayer

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
‐‐ Donald Driver

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.
‐‐ Nikki Grimes

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
‐‐ Jane Green

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
‐‐ Ruth Park

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.
‐‐ Bob Shacochis

Writing is a puzzle you'll spend your lifetime unlocking. You will never know it all; you will never know enough. You can always be better, and figuring out how to be better is part of the thrill and joy of the job.
‐‐ Holly Lisle

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
‐‐ Jewel