Discipline Quote by Kate Zambreno

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that…

— Alicia Keys

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

— Robert Ben Garant

I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience.…

— Dominique Jackson

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling…

— Brandi Carlile

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

— Peter Gizzi

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

— Allison Silverman

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt