Claustrophobia Quote by Emma Donoghue

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's…

— Augusten Burroughs

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

— Ray Bradbury

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said,…

— Melissa Febos

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

— Sarah Pinborough

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble…

— Roxane Gay

“Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love…

— Anonymous