Angle Quote by Herta Muller

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through…

— Oz Perkins

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to…

— Eudora Welty

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person…

— William Stafford

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

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a…

— Alejandro Zambra

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

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write…

— Pico Iyer