Chipping away Quote by Stanley Elkin

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

— Dan Rather

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

— Ann Patchett

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

— Brenda Ueland

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

— David Baboulene

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

— Nikki Grimes