Emotion Quote by Michael Ian Black

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

— Robert Holden

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

— Alice Walker

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the…

— Elena Ferrante

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

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

— Agatha Christie

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to…

— Aberjhani

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make…

— Joshua Homme

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott