“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see a grammatical error in my writing I feel like I'm standing in Central Park naked.” — Rae Copy Share Image
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.” — Anna Glazebrook Copy Share Image
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
“There are days when I get lost in the business of surviving in this world. I stop and enter my closet of… — Marsha Gomes-Mckie Copy Share Image
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren't any good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard rumors that writing can feel glamorous. But only glamorous, I’d guess, in the way a stretch limo might feel glamorous.… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Always refer your sadness as the end of a page, where you are frustrate to write anything in those last 2-3 lines,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image