Feels Quote by Flannery O'Connor

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain…

— Axl Rose

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to…

— Michelle Zauner