Being done Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

— Leo Ornstein

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

— Susan Sontag

When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo.…

— Jeffrey Rosen

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

— Joy Williams

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin