Firsts Quote by Susan Sontag

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing…

— Anonymous

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think…

— Brie Larson

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

— Dorothy Allison

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

— Johnny Vegas

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two…

— William Zinsser

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put…

— Arthur Phillips

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

— Daniel Lissing