Break Quote by Susan Griffin

“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make telephone calls.…

— Judith Barrington

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

— Tom King

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind…

— Francesca Lia Block

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…

— Gerald Brenan

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it…

— Anthony Hamilton

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the…

— Jonathan Ames

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and…

— Wallace Shawn

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

— Franz Kafka

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out,…

— Jorja Smith

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic…

— George Saunders