Acting Quote by Aleksa Palladino

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other,…

— Anonymous

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

— Sheryl Crow

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that…

— Scott Derrickson

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through…

— Oz Perkins

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling…

— Brandi Carlile