Amount Quote by Carolyn Chute

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

— Alice Mattison

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used…

— Anne McCaffrey

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

— Alice Mattison

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

— Kerry King

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing…

— Philip Roth

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control…

— Lauren Groff