Blue Quote by Joan Didion

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

— Ricky Jay

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

— Elizabeth David