Character Quote by Leslie Jamison

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And it's funny,…

— Nina Nastasia

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

— Joyce Maynard

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think…

— Jane Siberry

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I…

— Morgan Parker

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that I felt.

— Gracie Abrams

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to…

— Michelle Zauner

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward…

— Jens Lekman

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins