Different Quote by Wally Lamb

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 journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you…

— Mini Grey

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

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

— Rachel Joyce

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp…

— Peter Heller

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

— Patricia Hampl

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker