All Quotes

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
‐‐ N. Scott Momaday

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
‐‐ Georges Simenon

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

Writing is not fun.
‐‐ Rian Johnson

Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.
‐‐ Jennifer Warnes

Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.
‐‐ Toby Keith

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
‐‐ Tabitha King

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.
‐‐ Erin Gruwell

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen

Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.
‐‐ John Casey

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
‐‐ Lee Child

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
‐‐ Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

Writing is something I can do by myself.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.
‐‐ Amanda Harlech

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
‐‐ Finn Wittrock

Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
‐‐ Kendra Wilkinson

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

Writing is still on my slate.
‐‐ Jaleel White

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
‐‐ James Avery

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
‐‐ Robert Boswell

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
‐‐ Paul Auster