About Quote by E. L. Doctorow

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

— William Devane

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it overboard is…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

You’re not the only one who can get possessive. I’m very proprietary about what’s mine.

— Sylvia Day

When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding…

— Joseph Williams

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

— Ingrid Michaelson

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

I really only trust my own feelings when I am writing something.

— Simon Amstell

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning…

— James J. Gibson