Order Quote by Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more…

— Elie Wiesel

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

— Jane Espenson

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Joy Williams

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

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

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this…

— Dan Chiasson

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

— Leigh Whannell