Control Quote by Kim Edwards

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about…

— Lidija Dimkovska

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

— Carolyn Chute

“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…

— Stuart Dybek

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

— Augusten Burroughs

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writing time is for writing, not for checking e-mail, reading the news, or browsing the latest issues of journals. Sometimes I think it would…

— Paul J. Silvia

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control…

— Lauren Groff

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

— Kerry Washington

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things…

— Pauline Oliveros

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like…

— Donald Miller