Books Quote by May Sarton

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

I write to discover what I think

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

— Jane Alison

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to…

— Sharon Van Etten

I write poems to find out why I write them

— Stephen Dobyns

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to write down.

— Tyler Childers

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

— Chance The Rapper