As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote…

“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had…

— Joan Didion

“The neon orange orb sat low in the sky, slowly breaking free of the horizon like the waking memory of a dream. The salty…

— Jarod Kintz

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

— Jonathan Lethem

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the…

— Marianne Wiggins

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

— David Almond

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

— Mariska Hargitay

“my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. For”

— Gabriel García Márquez

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year…

— Leonard Mlodinow

A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence…

— Nathaniel Branden

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of…

— Idries Shah

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

— David Guterson