Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.” — Angeline Trevena Copy Share Image
“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir” — Verge LeNoir Copy Share Image
“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this… — Veronica Purcell Copy Share Image
“In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“I before E except after C. Weird? By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or… — Day Parker Copy Share Image
“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.” — Magus Tor Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
“How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you… — Shubham Choudhary Copy Share Image
“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Writing doesn’t get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, you’re probably still learning the craft. You… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I've been writing about my life and my ideas since before I was even an adult! So you know, if you ask… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, "I kill people." This response… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable)… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I love being by myself. I love it when it works, and I can't for the life of me figure out how… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps for many Japanese, autobiographical fiction writing is life. We are a people expected to complement, to harmonize, to anticipate one another's… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
