Always Quote by Elizabeth Berg

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an…

— Carly Simon

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone…

— Kate Bush

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see…

— Rosanne Cash

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a…

— Jack Kerouac

Of everything with 'The Room' that came out of it, I feel like being able to write, and tap back into that passion, was…

— Greg Sestero

Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has allowed me…

— Will Sheff

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole,…

— Dannah Gresh

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being…

— Shane Black

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too…

— Erykah Badu

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started…

— Truman Capote