Audience Quote by Erica Jong

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid…

— Octavia Butler

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think…

— Harper Lee

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth…

— Lynn Coady

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck