Altered Quote by Anne Lamott

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

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 envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

— Virginia Woolf

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

— Robyn Davidson

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

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