Writing Quote by Peter Straub

“It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.”

— Agatha Christie

“For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I…

— Markus Zusak

“I took out my journal. I'd been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out on the…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.”

— Howard Fast

“Writing is a pleasure. And a pain. Sometimes at the same time.”

— Bea Cannon

“There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.”

— Susan Fletcher

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“One thing I love about writing is that in that moment, I am most completely myself, and yet totally relieved of my self.”

— Kathryn Barrison

“You just like the idea of me. You like the person I present myself under circumstances that I can control. I choose what I…

— Han

“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel…

— D.A. Botta

“I told you.. whenever I'm afraid to write, I still do it. It's like going to a place that you've never been. You are…

— Alexina Benavidez