Being Quote by Christine and the Queens

I have been writing about my feelings forever.

— Gracie Abrams

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing at all.…

— Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

— Erica Jong

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the…

— James Thurber

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

— Vasily Grossman

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a…

— Christopher Rice