(2047 quotes found)
“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.”
Rumer Godden
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
Alfred Kazin
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”
Truman Capote
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
Don Delillo
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
E. L. Doctorow
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Anais Nin
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
Joan Didion
“In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.”
Mark Twain
“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
Robert A. Heinlein
