Ready Quote by Michael Chabon

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it…

— Peter Elbow

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little…

— Georges Simenon

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

— Mark Carwardine

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

— John Green

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

— James Richardson

When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

— Annie Dillard

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

— Gunter Brus

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is…

— E. L. Doctorow