Writing Punishment Quotes

#1. Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Jessamyn West

#2. Why do the lives of writers seem so ... train-wrecky?

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. "I ... must ... not ... look ... like ... a ... baboon's ... backside.

J.K. Rowling

#5. My guitar was a loyal person to me.

Dave Mustaine

#6. To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

Andrew Harvey

#7. There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

Markus Zusak

#8. It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

R. F. Delderfield

#9. Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

Fran Lebowitz

#10. Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics.

Edward Frenkel

#12. My father became a mythical figure, more force than man ... he was a force my mother would use as a threat of wrath and punishment." In "Father Close, Father Far" New California Writing

Dagoberto Gilb

#13. It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

Chris Hardwick

#16. As someone told me later, writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics. This was the first time I was so punished.

Edward Frenkel

#17. To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. I had been caught with one of Prodigium's greatest enemies. Something told me that punishment would be a lot worse than writing a thousand words on some obscure topic.

Rachel Hawkins

#19. For some the journey of highschool was probably pleasent or easy like swimming down a stream or walking down the street, but for me it was like climbing up a muddy hill ... while its raining ... with no shoes.

Elizabeth S. Rolph

#20. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".

Gloria D. Gonsalves