Art Quote by John Steinbeck

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a craft not an art.

— William Zinsser

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

— John Steinbeck

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

— Susanna Clarke

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing…

— Dorianne Laux

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

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