All Quotes

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
‐‐ Dan Brown

Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Writing is a solitary occupation.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
‐‐ Jessamyn West

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
‐‐ Susan Wiggs

Writing is a very calming thing for me.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
‐‐ Matthew Nable

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
‐‐ Alan Moore

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
‐‐ Donald Glover

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
‐‐ Steven Millhauser

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
‐‐ Jan Karon

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
‐‐ Meg Cabot

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
‐‐ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Writing is agony. I hate it.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
‐‐ Tabitha King

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
‐‐ E. B. White

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
‐‐ Steven Berkoff

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
‐‐ Amy Tan

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
‐‐ Marie Lu

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
‐‐ Robert Hass

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
‐‐ B. D. Wong

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
‐‐ R. A. Salvatore

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.
‐‐ Stuart Scott

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
‐‐ Carol Berg

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.
‐‐ Rose McIver

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
‐‐ Gene Fowler

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
‐‐ Jane Rule

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
‐‐ Philip Roth

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
‐‐ Herman Hesse