Want Quote by Anne McCaffrey

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

— Jeremy Larner

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have…

— Michael Piller

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer,…

— Claudia Rankine

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more…

— Harlan Ellison

Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and…

— Frederick Buechner

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

— Elias Canetti

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

— Sherwood Anderson

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into…

— Pico Iyer