Actually Quote by Andrea Hirata

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

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They…

— Josephine Tey

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think…

— Colin Nissan

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt