Writing Quote by Mark Nichol

“Writer. Another word for poor.”

— Buffy Andrews

“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”

— Bill Watterson

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway