Able Quote by Ba Jin

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

— Ben Fountain

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea…

— Anonymous

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

— Sam Shepard

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

— George Saunders

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this…

— David Thewlis

I've always been a very emotional person and as a child. I guess writing felt like something that I could do in private to…

— Arlo Parks

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

— Iris Dement

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende