Boards Quote by Rebecca Miller

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler