Consequence Quote by Frank Ocean

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's…

— Colm Toibin

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might…

— Patrick deWitt

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

— Vasily Grossman

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

— Andrew Motion

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set…

— Ray Bradbury

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and…

— Tobias Wolff

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Sevyn Streeter