Approach Quote by Stephen King

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on…

— Stephen King

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't…

— Edward Albee

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp…

— Peter Heller

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 like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when…

— Kate Braverman

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

— Carrie Brownstein

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

— Morgan Parker

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

— Maureen Dowd