Findings Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

— Kat Edmonson

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

— Ray Bradbury

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that…

— Ronald Frame

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing…

— Andrea Barrett

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but…

— Leon Uris

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might…

— Patrick deWitt

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I…

— Eric Brown

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

— Gail Carson Levine

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem