Performance Quote by Robert Lepage

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

— Robert Stacy McCain

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

— Mabel Seeley

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

— Brenda Ueland

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

— Quintilian

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

— William Zinsser

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough