Accepting Quote by Matt Nix

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

— Rumaan Alam

I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected but those…

— Karen Walton

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

— David Droga

“Today I’m a “sociopath”, A.K.A. feeling very antisocial and ignorant of human emotion. Code for: I’m writing… leave me alone”

— Ari Ryder

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them…

— Martha Stout

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to…

— Sarah Gerard

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

— Lisa Joy

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

— Billy Bragg

I've always been a very emotional person and as a child. I guess writing felt like something that I could do in private to…

— Arlo Parks

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

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates