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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

— Tabitha King

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

— Mary Gaitskill

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

— Ariel Dorfman

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

— Steven Millhauser

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

— Pico Iyer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

— Ben Fountain