Top 99 Writing Is Like Quotes
#2. Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
Flannery O'Connor
#3. Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice
Rick Riordan
#4. Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
Quincy Jones
#5. Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.
James Purdy
#6. When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.
[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]
Susanna Clarke
#7. Write to me Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.
Daniel Glattauer
#8. Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.
Federico Chini
#9. I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.
Shannon Celebi
#10. Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.
Rick Springfield
#11. Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
Jenna Alatari
#12. Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul ... you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn't snap.
Judy Croome
#13. Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
Gina McKnight
#14. Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it there.
Joanne McDonnell
#15. Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure.
Steve Merrick
#16. Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back.
Adam Copeland
#17. Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.
Alane Adams
#18. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
Ron Brackin
#19. Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.
Rick Riordan
#20. Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
Elie Wiesel
#21. The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when we perish from this earth.
K.C. Woodworth
#23. Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.
Stephen King
#24. Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.
Ray Bradbury
#25. Writing is like painting with words, the paper is the canvas, the pen is the brush, the words are the colors and the verbs, nouns and adjectives are the blending of the hues that add depth to the picture you are creating.
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#26. 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
#27. A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.
Maija Rhee Devine
#28. Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.
Charles Bukowski
#29. Writing is like my coffee. If I don't have any, I go crazy.
Khali Raymond
#30. Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.
George R R Martin
#31. I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.
C.S. Lewis
#32. Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Bill Simmons
#33. Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through your fingertips, and it travels the world in your place.
Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick
#34. Writing is like breathing...it's something that I must do or perish.
M.G. Lambert
#35. Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul Desmond
#36. Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.
Isabel Allende
#37. Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem to have an inner music...
Leonard Ray Teel
#38. Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
John Muir
#39. 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
#40. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
#41. Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing.
Greg Sisco
#42. Writing is like painting with watercolour, sometimes it's what you leave out at matters.
Haydn Jones
#43. Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
Howard Nemerov
#44. All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#45. Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.
Chloe Thurlow
#46. Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.
A.J. Dalton
#47. Writing is like making love. Connecting with another person's mind is the deepest form of penetration.
Shawn Stern
#48. Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
E.B. White
#49. For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
Pablo Neruda
#50. To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
Dennis Covington
#51. Writing is like canoeing. When everything is flowing it's great but when it's not, you're dragging your butt the whole way down the river.
Jamie Krakover
#52. If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.
Laura Holford-Green
#53. Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Isabel Allende
#54. To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Dirk Benedict
#55. Writing is like this
you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.
Paul Engle
#56. The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.
Janet Frame
#57. Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
Stephen King
#58. Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story
Dave McDonald
#60. Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
Mavis Gallant
#61. Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.
Jason Blacker
#62. Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.
Chris Baty
#63. Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
Jeremy Clarkson
#64. Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
Jason Schwartzman
#65. Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up.
Emma Shortt
#66. Writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.
Steven Taylor Goldsberry
#67. Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.
Pam Allyn
#68. My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
Harrison Birtwistle
#69. Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.
Ed Rosenthal
#70. Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
#71. Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
Stephen King
#72. Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
David Baboulene
#73. A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Susanna Clarke
#74. All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing ...
Audre Lorde
#75. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#76. Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.
Pam Allyn
#77. Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.
Carol Morgan
#78. Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
#79. Writing is like running a marathon. One needs stamina and perseverance. The right preparation and pacing get results.
K.J. Kilton
#80. Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.
Ali Shaw
#81. I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
Donna Leon
#82. My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ...
Leo Tolstoy
#83. But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I can't imagine stopping.
Heather Frost
#84. Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
Virginia Woolf
#85. To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
Lorine S. Thomas
#86. For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
Ben Schott
#87. Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
Midnight Taylor
#88. Writing is like solving a creative equation.
See Moua
#89. Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives.
Lynn M. Dixon
#91. Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
James N. Frey
#92. Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
Harold Brodkey
#94. Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.
Anu Lal
#95. Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.
Katrina Monroe
#96. Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
Kate Braverman
#97. Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God.
Bela Abel
#98. Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.
Dee Leone
#99. Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.
Charlie Day
#100. Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.
Helen Prejean
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