Writing is thinking on paper.
Quote of the Day: J.P. Donleavy
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Quote of the Day: Thomas Hardy
The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Quote of the Day: EL Doctorow
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Quote of the Day: George-Louis Leclerc
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling and good expression; it is having wit, soul and taste, all together.
Quote of the Day: Julie Burchill
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Quote of the Day: Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
Quote of the Day: Martin Amis
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
Quote of the Day: William Saroyan
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Quote of the Day: Monica Ali
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.