Faces Quote by Warren Ellis

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid…

— Octavia Butler

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

— Caroline Leavitt

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

— Wil Haygood

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

— Meg Cabot