Heart Quote by Tiffany Darwish

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I loved the process of writing.

— Nora Roberts

I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel…

— Alex Gaskarth

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

— Rebel Wilson

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in…

— Gertrude Atherton

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

— Katherine Paterson

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner