Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Like with Parks and Recreation, it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
Aziz Ansari

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote

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.
Truman Capote

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

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

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
Beverly Cleary

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Oriana Fallaci

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Raymond Chandler

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler

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