Authentic self Quote by Gillian Flynn

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

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

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

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

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's…

— George Carlin

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

— Karen Traviss

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Yes, I write a lot of my own stuff. I love to write, it allows you to be real and show yourself.

— Ray J