Forget Quote by Gary Reilly

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

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always…

— Elena Ferrante

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

— Luis Negron

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

— Michael Ondaatje

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

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King