Characteristics Quote by Gerrit Noordzij

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

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

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

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute…

— Robin Wasserman

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Richard Rhodes