Form Quote by Stephen Sondheim

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

— Francoise Sagan

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

— Joanne Harris

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life…

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

— Colm Toibin

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

— Eppu Nuotio