Believe Quote by Jim Tressel

We write to discover what we think.

— Joan Didion

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

— Emil Ferris

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something…

— Julia Cameron

“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on…

— W.G. Sebald

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

— Anne Roiphe

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed…

— Ted Dekker

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page…

— Celeste Ng

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

— George A. Sheehan

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

— Sarah Barthel

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

— Anonymous

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

— Laurie Foos