Appalling Quote by Daryl Gregory

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us,…

— Andre Dubus

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety…

— John Henry Newman

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

— Robyn Davidson

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant…

— Brenda Miller