Matter Quote by Mary Higgins Clark

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again.…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

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