Art Quote by Andrea Hirata

I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to…

— Jonathan Meades

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?'…

— Jesmyn Ward

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to…

— Michelle Zauner

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

— Paul Haggis

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a…

— David Ignatius

“There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen.  And then there are days when…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that…

— Alicia Keys

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't…

— Julie Ann Dawson

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all…

— Colm Toibin

“I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.”

— Mary O'Hara

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making…

— Nicola Griffith

“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest thoughts and…

— James W. Pennebaker