Accepting Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators,…

— Mike White

For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard,…

— Robin Sloan

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,…

— Laura van den Berg

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that…

— Lena Dunham

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

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 my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

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