Able Quote by Jodi Picoult

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to…

— Rebecca Miller

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

— Ben Marcus

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those…

— Rick Moody

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age…

— Anne Rice

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down…

— Jimmy Barnes

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

— Nadine Gordimer