Blood and sweat Quote by Kim Newman

“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”

— Wendy Swore

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.”

— Alane Adams

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

“Writing is the easiest thing in the world NOT to do.”

— Leigh Goodison

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing…

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it there.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”

— Will Haygood