This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
Ringo Starr

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
Shania Twain

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.
Jeff Foxworthy

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao Tse-Tung

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
Paula Abdul

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

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.
Susan Sontag

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov