Interesting Quote by Alice Mattison

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

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

— Carolyn Chute

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

— Marley Dias

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you…

— Stephen King

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given…

— Toni Cade Bambara

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury