Mud Quote by Joseph Conrad

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

— John le Carre

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

— Sudha Murty

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

— H. L. Mencken

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

— Gunter Brus

Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but…

— John Lukacs

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

— James Joyce

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

— Francoise Sagan

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

— Mani Ratnam