People think that writing is writing, but actually writing…

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots.…

— Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc

I think all writing is about writing. All writing is a way of going out and exploring the world, of examining the way we…

— Nick Laird

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

— Virginia Woolf

“Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.”

— Christy Hall

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

— Tim Kring

“At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue.…

— Yu Hua

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop…

— Matt Fraction

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

— Lana Del Rey

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element…

— Eliza Coupe

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

— Elie Wiesel

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

— Graham Swift

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

— Matt Groening