A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. — Chaim Potok
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it’s all about sitting and waiting for the muse. — Jodi Picoult
There’s no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it. — Garry Marshall
Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck. — Iris Murdoch
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive — Paul de Man
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That’s what makes it what it is. — Irvine Welsh
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote
Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. — William Shatner
Modern as the style of pascal’s writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the — Lytton Strachey
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. — Zooey Deschanel
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock – shock is a worn-out word – but astonish. — Terry Southern
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle — Jane Asher
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. — Anne Rivers Siddons