Believe Quote by Molly Shannon

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

— Susan Sontag

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write…

— Pico Iyer

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

— Emily Gould

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

— Dan Auerbach

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

— Vikas Swarup

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

— Amor Towles

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of…

— Barry Hannah

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about…

— Nicole Atkins

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga