Comfortable Quote by Michael Morpurgo

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...

— Kay Redfield Jamison

One writes in order to feel.

— Muriel Rukeyser

If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel…

— Irvine Welsh

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about…

— Julia Cameron

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

I wonder how people write exactly how they feel and give the reader the same feeling. Its a blessing!!

— Farah Mustafa

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

— Tarryn Fisher

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually…

— Luanne Rice

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

— Fernando Pessoa

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer