Army Quote by Etgar Keret

When things were not going right for me, writing was the only thing that kept my equilibrium right, it has always been a do-it…

— Aditya Dhar

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.

— Abi Morgan

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in…

— Demi Lovato

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

— James Salter

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

— Mikhail Lermontov

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

“When I interviewed the participants whom I’d describe as living a Wholehearted life about the same topic, they consistently talked about trying to feel…

— Brené Brown

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value,…

— Melissa Bank

When I was a journalist... toward the end of my career, it had started to feel like there was this revolving door of misery…

— Cord Jefferson

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil. Light-hearted inspiration…

— Keith Steinbaum

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that…

— Alice Miller