Crawling Quote by Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

— Alice Walker

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

I'm more of an organic writer.

— Skip Marley

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it…

— C. S. Lewis

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

— Doris Lessing

“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re through, it…

— Kermit E. Heartsong

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