Away Quote by Bryan Lee O'Malley

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

— The Weeknd

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find…

— Carolyn Chute

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

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or…

— Melissa Febos

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until…

— Emily Haines

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm…

— Dan Gilroy

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my…

— Gary Lutz