Abandonment Quote by Flannery O'Connor

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

— Julien Baker

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

— Joyce Maynard

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment,…

— Seamus Heaney

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful

— Seamus Heaney

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone…

— Thomas Jefferson

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up…

— Damian Barr

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's…

— Jennifer Egan

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion