Draws Quote by Philip Roth

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Githae Mugo

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by…

— Tobias Wolff

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Mugo

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out…

— Bill Ayers

“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing…

— Andrea Barrett