I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that…

“Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their…

— Alexander Lowen

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…

— Maggie Nelson

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a…

— George Saunders

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

— Otis Blackwell

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are.…

— Pico Iyer

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

— Ryan Eggold

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

— Michael Ondaatje

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a…

— Alan Moore

“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just…

— Sara Sheridan

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material…

— Taylor Momsen

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a…

— Anonymous

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse…

— John Updike