There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.” — Michelle C. Hillstrom Copy Share Image
“Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.” — Charles Delmar author of My Cooking Coach and creator of MyCookingCoach.com Copy Share Image
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it. — Feist Copy Share Image
I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.' — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul...you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you… — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself,… — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff,… — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“I fancy myself a writer. And writing, in its most eloquent manner, since time became a concept indoctrinated by true troglodytes, tickles… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“better? But what would become of me if I didn’t write what I can, however inferior it may be to what I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing,… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper… — David Burke Copy Share Image
“It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
