Length Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

— Jennifer Stone

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in…

— Thomas Carlyle

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

— Michael Cunningham

Words are just sounds made; but actions are when things are done.

— Swag Jagar

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman