Core Quote by Sasa Stanisic

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what…

— Catherine Brady

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border…

— Jo Beverley

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you…

— Jason Katims

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the…

— Lily King

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's…

— Bill Callahan

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

— Gloria Naylor