Rats Quote by Chila Woychik

“I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything.”

— John Corey Whaley

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“I write to know what I think.”

— Joan Didion

“One thing I love about writing is that in that moment, I am most completely myself, and yet totally relieved of my self.”

— Kathryn Barrison

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should…

— Thurman P. Banks Jr

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“The words just start to fall there. And I feel some satisfaction from that. I've never written just for myself. And I've never written…

— David Levithan

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.”

— Debora Dennis

“I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into…

— Alexandra Bracken