Awkward Quote by Nicole Krauss

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

— Heidi Julavits

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If you only…

— Roselle Angwin

I try not to be too precious about my writing, and I try to be willing to walk away from it for a few…

— Maggie O'Farrell

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I…

— David Knopfler

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Ella Henderson

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially…

— Paul Theroux

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass