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Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

— Linda Gray

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and…

— Mary Gaitskill

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in…

— Paul Auster

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the…

— Anne Lamott

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it…

— C. S. Lewis

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

— Jonathan Lethem