All Quotes

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.
‐‐ Lauren Miller

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

Writing is the beast unto itself.
‐‐ Omar Epps

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.
‐‐ Megyn Price

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
‐‐ Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
‐‐ Olin Miller

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.
‐‐ Lawrence Sanders

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
‐‐ Richard Ford

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
‐‐ Adam Gopnik

'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
‐‐ Tim Ferriss

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
‐‐ J. P. Donleavy

Writing is very cathartic for me.
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.
‐‐ Francesca Lia Block

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
‐‐ Shania Twain

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
‐‐ Clark Blaise

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
‐‐ Tanith Lee

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
‐‐ Adriana Trigiani

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
‐‐ Herta Muller

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
‐‐ Graham Brown

Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may quite possibly never have existed at all, and if he did, the Judas kiss may not have happened.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.
‐‐ Conan Stevens

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Writing makes you more human.
‐‐ John Updike

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.
‐‐ Rob Thurman

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk