Contentment Quote by Anne Lamott

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us…

— Tom Barbash

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

— William Styron

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms…

— Natalie Goldberg

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what…

— Stephen King

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra