Excess Quote by William Zinsser

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

— Sophie Hannah

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Joy Williams

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst