Writing Quotes

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. View quote
Cyril Connolly
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. View quote
Thomas Mann
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. View quote
Robert Frost
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. View quote
Robert Benchley
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. View quote
Jules Renard
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. View quote
Susan Sontag
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. View quote
Norman Mailer
My work is writing, but my real work is being. View quote
William Saroyan
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E. L. Doctorow)
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. View quote
Francis Bacon
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. View quote
Terry Southern
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. View quote
John Updike
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Frank Zappa
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. View quote
J. P. Donleavy
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. (W. Somerset Maugham)
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. View quote
Alexander Pope
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. View quote
Norman Mailer
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. View quote
Anne Rice