Experiences Quote by Sonali Bendre

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing…

— Ernest Hemingway

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

— Ishmael Reed

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no…

— David Bowie

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

— Sarah Dessen

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein