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Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
— Cynthia Ozick
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
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
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
A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something
— John Gardner
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
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
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 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
Caesar's double-bed is warmAs an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden
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
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
The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.
— Kameron Hurley
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
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