Channeling Quote by Donald Miller

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have…

— Meg Wolitzer

When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the…

— T.C. Boyle

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

— Augusten Burroughs

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk