Novels-books Quote by R.M. Engelhardt

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”

— Cristina Istrati

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written…

— George H. Scithers

“Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality…

— Allie Burke

“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver

“As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens…

— Elena Ferrante

“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to cause anger…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme