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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it. — John Lutz

Write like no one is reading. — Crystal Woods

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling. — Gabrielle Tozer

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? — Beth Moore

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent. — Dan Chaon

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy. — Alexandra Johnson

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. — Paul Thomas Anderson

Writing is like life: it goes on. — Marty Rubin

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills. — Alane Adams

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink. — Alane Adams

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. — Tiffany Madison

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. — John Muir

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun. — J.J. Brown

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. — Gina McKnight

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands. — Chila Woychik

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night. — Christy Hall

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. — Chris Everheart

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — Neil Gaiman

Writing is a bit like going on a diet; you should either tell everyone or no one. — Maeve Binchy

Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky — Brandon Mull

Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery. — Henry Miller

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind. — Sue Miller

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life. — Neil LaBute

Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove. — Angelica Hopes

Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing. — Greg Sisco

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff. — Oliver Sykes

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. — Anthony Powell

Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it. — Julie Roberts

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life ... I have put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. — Neil Gaiman

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. — Anne Lamott

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. — Dennis R. Miller

Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. — E.B. White

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. — Neil Simon

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game. — Robin Black

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs. — Nina Nesbitt

Writing is like my coffee. If I don't have any, I go crazy. — Khali Raymond

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product. — Julia Cameron

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do. — Chloe Thurlow

Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually a book will make itself known. — Jeffrey Littorno

Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don't have a clue — Carl Henegan

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. — Kellie Elmore

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. — Gabriela M. Sanchez

Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works. — Angela Young

I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing. — Stephen King

Like madness is the glory of this life. — William Shakespeare

Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds — Randy Mitchell

To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down. — Chris Campanioni