Activities Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get…

— Anthony McCarten

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can…

— Tom Stoppard

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

— Joseph O'Neill

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

— Bishop Briggs

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore