Absence Quote by Ntozake Shange

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there wouldn't be…

— Ben Marcus

I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, 'I have my own story I want to…

— Stephen Karam

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and…

— Sudha Murty

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when…

— Erin Morgenstern

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I…

— Eric Brown

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

— Audre Lorde

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like…

— Jake Holmes