Writing Quote by Stephen Hagelin

“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.”

— Anthea Syrokou

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power. The positive and negative affect on…

— Steven L. Hiller

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as…

— Stephen King

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

— Stephen King

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it,…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich