Affect Quote by Susan Tedeschi

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

The way you write affects what you say.

— Norman Mailer

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

— Melvyn Bragg

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

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.

— Ben Howard

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

— Lisa See

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

— JoAnn Ross