Art Quote by Jerry Stahl

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

— Dorothy Parker

“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat of a…

— Agnes Nixon

“Write what you know," my ass. Now, I'm not suggesting that you write about my ass. But although you do not, in fact, know…

— Robyn Parnell

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem, or short…

— Andre Dubus III

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

— Gustave Flaubert

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all…

— Thucydides

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

— Jhumpa Lahiri