Top 100 Writing Is Quotes
#1. Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
Anthea Syrokou
#2. Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.
Tess Gerritsen
#4. I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.
Bauvard
#5. I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice Walker
#6. The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#7. We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
Julia Cameron
#8. It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.
Christopher Milne
#9. We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
#10. George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.
Beverly LaHaye
#11. Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E.L. Doctorow
#12. The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
Ken Bruen
#13. No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn't easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
Ryan Holiday
#14. Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
Michael J. Kannengieser
#15. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Georges Simenon
#17. The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#18. Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.
Shelby Foote
#19. Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.
Josh Farrar
#20. 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
#22. I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt
#24. 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
#25. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
#26. Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith ... talent is the smallest part of it.
Jodi Picoult
#29. The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.
Betsy Lerner
#30. Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.
Mallika Tripathi
#31. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#32. What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
Larry McMurtry
#35. It's very much a character-based play. Conor's writing is almost musical and paints pictures at the same time. It's a joy as an actor to be able to say the words. It's very conversational but at the same time, tells a story.
Sean Mahon
#36. An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
Barbara Tuchman
#37. Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.
Michael Swanwick
#39. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
Elie Wiesel
#40. My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.
Sarah Hall
#41. 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
#42. When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
Julia Cameron
#43. The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#44. People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
Paul Theroux
#45. I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
Chris Abani
#46. Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!
J. Mary Masters
#47. Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.
Duane Michals
#48. When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
Junot Diaz
#49. 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
#50. I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo
#51. Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
Christian Bauman
#52. Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.
Jessica Bell
#53. My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
Jane Austen
#55. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri
#56. Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.
Stephen R. Covey
#57. People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
Chris Abani
#58. Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O'Neill
#59. Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
Margaret Atwood
#60. Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
Eliza Green
#61. My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.
Donald Fagen
#62. For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.
Kathryn Harrison
#63. You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#64. One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.
Sara Sheridan
#66. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
Ron Brackin
#67. I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
Andre Dubus
#68. It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
Hortense Calisher
#69. Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.
Lang Leav
#70. For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.
Koren Zailckas
#71. David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.
Ruta Sepetys
#72. Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.
Rick Riordan
#73. In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
#74. I think what makes good writing is intimacy - putting the reader inside the character's head. Many books are bad because they're merely guidebooks for sightseers.
Raymond Bolton
#75. The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Leonard Bernstein
#77. Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Hermann Hesse
#78. The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
Lindsey Buckingham
#79. Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Anthony Powell
#80. 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
#81. The art of writing is not unlike the act of screaming. A constant flow of otherworldly emotions with tempos high and hymns low. All to amount to some purpose not so loudly spoken: the whisper of change the heart of a writer weeps to reap.
Rosca Marx
#82. Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.
William Zinsser
#83. One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
Scarlett Thomas
#85. I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
Chaim Potok
#86. Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
Tabitha King
#87. Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.
Barbara Abercrombie
#88. People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
George Gissing
#89. Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Georges Braque
#90. Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
Stephen Leacock
#91. Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
#92. Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
Sharon Olds
#93. Master the craft. Write lots, even if you never intend to do anything with it. Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts. There are lots of occasions where you may be able to use some of that work. If the writing is strong, save it for later.
Eric Matheny
#94. I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.
Shiloh Fernandez
#95. Writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
Fannie Hurst
#96. The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
Joanne Harris
#98. Don't try so hard to be the penetrating observer. Writing is, after all, a makeshift thing.
Anonymous
#99. 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
