Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and…

— Ruskin Bond

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

— Anne-Marie

Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps…

— Kali Uchis

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

— Gavin Friday

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

One thing helps the other. My stand-up helps my writing; my writing helps my stand-up; my stand-up helps my acting. They're all interlocked.

— Charlie Murphy

There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It…

— Lukasz Fabianski

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in…

— Craig Silvey

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

— Brigitte Bardot

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

— Henry Miller

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

— J. G. Ballard

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith…

— Howard Jacobson

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

— Ari Aster

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change -…

— Sarah Waters