Action Quote by Zadie Smith

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic…

— Hari Kunzru

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into…

— Nina Jean Slack

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else.…

— Brenda Ueland

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is…

— Gabriela Mistral