Courses Quote by Jane Alison

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

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 gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected…

— Justin Nozuka

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg