Impossible Quote by Masha Gessen

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key…

— Sarah Dessen

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any…

— Kevin Powers

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko