Aspect Quote by Steve Carell

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience…

— Mos Def

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

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that…

— Amber Benson

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life…

— Joanne Harris

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing…

— Mike Colter

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

— Carolyn Chute