Anger Quote by Abi Morgan

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

— Randy Owen

When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

— Judy Blume

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil. Light-hearted inspiration…

— Keith Steinbaum

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again…

— Ann Packer

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army,…

— Etgar Keret

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was…

— Sandra Brown

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

— Lisa Joy

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise…

— Louise Doughty

When things were not going right for me, writing was the only thing that kept my equilibrium right, it has always been a do-it…

— Aditya Dhar

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have…

— Marge Piercy

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis