Hurt Quote by Steve Scalise

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

— Ryan Babel

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen…

— Tara Westover

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the…

— Nikki Grimes

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a…

— Ann Powers

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into…

— Jed Mercurio

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in…

— Kriti Sanon