Dangerous Quote by Helene Cixous

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

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise

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

— Joy Williams

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

— Mani Ratnam

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Andrea Hirata

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

— Charlie Kaufman

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know…

— Mem Fox

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 an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world…

— Jack Heffron