Always Quote by Alice Walker

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd…

— Emma Tennant

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

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

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

— Lisa Joy

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

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

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always…

— Clive James

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

— Hilton Als

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

— Ishmael Reed