Beats Quote by Jules Feiffer

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

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

— Andrea Hirata

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns…

— Sheila Heti

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch…

— David Rakoff

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what…

— Shelby Foote

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going…

— Paul Auster

I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away.…

— Andy Grammer