Feels Quote by Joan Didion

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

— Patricia Hampl

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.…

— Renata Adler

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein