Hills Quote by Emily Carr

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

— Karen Traviss

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

— Raymond Chandler

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

— Robert Holden

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp…

— Peter Heller