Writing Quote by Annie Dillard

“Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it there.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you…

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.”

— Dee Leone

“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art , the way Melville had,…

— Chad Harbach

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.”

— Zig Ziglar

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.”

— Gloria Steinem

“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

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.”

— K.D. Green