Chance Quote by George Saunders

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

— Iris Murdoch

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

— Jane Yolen

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap…

— Masha Gessen

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

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Githae Mugo

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury