Feel Quote by John Corey Whaley

I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your…

— Chinua Achebe

Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you…

— Stephenie Meyer

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like…

— Angel Olsen

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

— Lana Del Rey

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also…

— Sylvia Plath

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing…

— Ben Clymer

“i am writing my way back to you.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan