Engineering Quote by Doris Lessing

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

— Roald Dahl

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

— Jessie Reyez

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

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

— Tony Harrison

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able…

— Julie Andrews

Whatever inspiration comes to me; I always try to write about.

— Skip Marley

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman