Appreciate Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and…

— Tobias Wolff

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

— Dani Shapiro

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

— Gloria Naylor

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing…

— Ernest Hemingway

I can appreciate other writers' works.

— Clive Cussler

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of…

— Roxane Gay

The writing is what's most important to me.

— Billy Lawrence