Humor Quote by Shannon L. Alder

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that…

— Christina Baldwin

“What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something…

— Martin Amis

“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into…

— Nina Jean Slack

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful

— Seamus Heaney

“Writing comes from the angels in your soul. The gifts there are shared through the keyboard to the page. The reader finds everything they…

— Barbara Beck-Elam

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment,…

— Seamus Heaney

“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value…

— Italo Calvino

“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”

— Nona King

“There’s more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, “the muse.” So I want to lay out one…

— Charles Finch

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-- fascinating, cruel,…

— Cara Swann

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to…

— Amy Tan