Feels Quote by J.R. Ward

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

— Michael Connelly

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t.…

— Jandy Nelson

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something…

— Richard Bach

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as…

— Meg Cabot

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There…

— Byron Katie

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

— Karyn Kusama

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do…

— Julia Glass

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

— Hugh Bonneville