Doe Quote by Richard Bach

When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something…

— Jenny Han

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand…

— Elizabeth George

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women…

— William Zinsser

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

— Arlene Croce

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

— Elena Ferrante

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

— Erica Jong

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be…

— William Hughes Mearns

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up…

— Shirley Jackson