Emotionally Quote by Jens Lekman

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes…

— Alan Zweibel

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

— Ernest Gaines

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

— Roy Peter Clark

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger…

— Ntozake Shange

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

— Robert Gottlieb

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more…

— David Grossman

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

— Rose Tremain

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your…

— Rafael Yglesias

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that I felt.

— Gracie Abrams