Bird Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!”

— Avijeet Das

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
”

— Jarod Kintz

“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.”

— Adam Santo

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do…

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Alane Adams

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald