i am writing my way back to you.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

— Delia Ephron

“Even though I'm an ordinary writer, I too, have trouble when it come to writing along the way. But at least I manage to…

— Simi Sunny

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also…

— Sylvia Plath

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing…

— Ben Clymer

“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan

“I am still writing my way toward a place where I fit.”

— Roxane Gay

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

— Rosario Castellanos

Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.

— Anonymous