A good thing Quote by Louise Gluck

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

In the past, I've always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never…

— Cassadee Pope

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

— Lisa Joy

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

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

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

— Wally Lamb

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good…

— Lisa Edelstein

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein