Allowing Quote by Wallace Shawn

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for…

— Annie Dillard

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one…

— Natalya Neidhart

For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of…

— T. R. Pearson

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

— Terry McMillan

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you…

— David Levithan

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling…

— Elif Safak

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good…

— Lisa Edelstein

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano