Cry Quote by Clare B. Dunkle

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

— Mason Cooley

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in…

— Natalie Imbruglia

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

— Richard Flanagan

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

— J. K. Rowling

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

— James J. Kilpatrick

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino