High seas Quote by Walter Moers

Words writ in waters.

— George Chapman

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait…

— Rebecca McClanahan

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

— Gilles Deleuze

“From seaport to seaport, papers accumulate on the captain’s desk. “Paperwork has become the bane of this job,” he says. “If a ship doesn’t…

— John McPhee

Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves…

— William Finnegan

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

— Mark Carwardine

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

— Joseph Conrad

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

— James N. Frey

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of…

— Charles Peguy