Access Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come…

— Dhanush

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose…

— Kurt Cobain

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

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

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford