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Writing is alot like religion, you need to have faith. — L.A. Jones

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things. — Corey Smith

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ... — Leo Tolstoy

Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you. — M.F. Moonzajer

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it. — Mark Leidner

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

Why is a raven like a writing-desk? — Marissa Meyer

Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it. — Carole Radziwill

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

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

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities. — Sara Sheridan

The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance. — David Levithan

Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My playing is no more like her's, than a lamp is like sunshine. — Jane Austen

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. — David Brooks

If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart. — Laura Holford-Green

Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it. — Robert Galbraith

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. — Gustave Flaubert

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing. — James Mercer

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block. — Dan Alatorre

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. — Stephanie Roberts

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West

Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today. — Jen Selinsky

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie. — David Ayer

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

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while. — Stephen King

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning... — Nanette L. Avery

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

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money. — Moliere

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing. — Ken Kesey

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned. — Robert Scholes

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it. — Alvi Syahrin

Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story. — Ksenia Anske

Will I ever be able to say, "Today it writes," just like "Today it rains," "Today it is windy"? — Italo Calvino

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

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration ... — Leonard Bishop

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

Good writing is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap. — Kathleen Hanna

There are some things I would like to say through my writing. It is there in those things where my writing is born, and then breathes on it's own. — Roger Raffee

Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle
And hoping
It will reach Japan. — Alice Munro

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought. — Toby Keith

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat. — Fennel Hudson

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper. — Howard Nemerov

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What — Margaret Atwood

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. — Warren Buffett

Writing is like carrying a fetus. — Edna O'Brien

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt. — Marina And The Diamonds

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. — Reza Aslan

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. — Wallace Stegner

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day. — Betty Dravis

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

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out! — Carmen DeSousa

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. — Sarah Kay

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. — Paul Feig

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R R Martin

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!! — Lorine S. Thomas

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens. — Robert Ahaness

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. — Stephanie Zimbalist

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job. — Kameron Hurley

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. — Siri Hustvedt

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Mohsin Hamid

Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that. — J.D. Barker

Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had. — Giuseppe Bianco

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. — Stephen King

To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray. — G. Willow Wilson

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me. — Theodora Goss

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up. — Ali Shaw

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto. — Susie Bright

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence

A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward. — Maija Rhee Devine

Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives. — Lynn M. Dixon

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like. — H.L. Mencken