Difficult Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is…

— Lilith Saintcrow

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can…

— E. B. White

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with these issues…

— Colm Meaney

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

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth…

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

— George Sand