Blood Quote by Billy Joel

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

— Gunter Brus

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

— Fran Lebowitz

There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.

— Celeste Ng

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

— Zane Grey

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

— F. H. Bradley

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth…

— Rod Serling

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things…

— Todd Newton