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| Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition | | Graham Greene | |
| Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. | | Jessamyn West | |
| Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. | | Moliere | |
| Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
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| Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. | | Olin Miller | |
| Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. | | Jules Renard | |
| Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. | | Gloria Steinem | |
| Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. | | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. | | Horace | |
| You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. | | Saul Bellow | |
| You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
