Opposites Quote by Elie Wiesel

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

— Richard Rhodes

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to write in…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— David Farr

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

— Robert Stacy McCain

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

— Suzanne Vega

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

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder