Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you…

“Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm…

— Lac Su

“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…

— Shannon Celebi

“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island. Yeah... that…

— Heena Rathore P

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.”

— Alane Adams

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants…

— Robert Osborne

“Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for…

— Raymond Federman

I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try…

— Deborah Feldman

Love is like quicksand - once you're in it's difficult to get out.

— Anonymous

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one…

— Lee Goldberg

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took…

— Heather McHugh

“Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. “Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom’s heir, not Oromis’s.…

— Christopher Paolini

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said…

— Peter Lerangis

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned,…

— Ridley Pearson