Editing Quote by Chris Abani

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— David Farr

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

— Linn Ullmann

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

— Francoise Sagan

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

— Truman Capote

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing.…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is a chore.

— Paul Gilbert

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti