"Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers."

— Charles Bukowski

"Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I’m made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

— Haruki Murakami

"I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember."

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via She was a Hurricane.)

"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."

— Sylvia Plath  (via living-in-dreamworld)