Like Quote by Bear McCreary

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it…

— Mike Birbiglia

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world…

— Kevin Spacey

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing…

— Dorianne Laux

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling…

— Elif Safak

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up…

— Shirley Jackson

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

— Anne Tyler

Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to put it…

— Eugenia Vela