Own Quote by Lisa Joy

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

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

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much…

— Paloma Elsesser

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

— Sheryl Crow

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

— Anonymous

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain…

— Axl Rose

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've…

— Miriam Toews