Guts Quote by Charles Peguy

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

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

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

— P. C. Cast

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

— Irving Thalberg

One is a writer, or one is not.

— Monique Wittig

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann