Character Quote by Evelyn Waugh

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

I write in character a lot.

— Mark Foster

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

— Jen Lancaster

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling…

— Elif Safak

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has…

— Niyi Osundare

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