Felt Quote by Joss Whedon

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started…

— Truman Capote

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to…

— Sharon Van Etten

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“For a long time, I felt like I was destined to inherit a certain kind of life and so I wouldn’t let myself think…

— Kenny Porpora

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

“I have sometimes told people, probably wrongly, that there’s no point in writing at all if you don’t feel that there’s something you absolutely…

— Scarlett Thomas

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the…

— Don DeLillo

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past is like a story,…

— José N. Harris