Behind Quote by Gloria Naylor

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

— Giacomo Casanova

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made…

— Kay Ryan

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

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

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan