Clumsy Quote by Ernest Hemingway

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

— John Steinbeck

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

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

— Joy Williams

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

— John Prine

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

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

— Eppu Nuotio