First place Quote by Gore Vidal

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of…

— Robert McKee

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst