1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

The text of a person’s writing reveals flaws in their thinking patterns, imperfections in personal character, and lack of acumen and academic skills.

Writing requires a degree of both detachment and immersion. People banished from a community find themselves perfectly positioned to become writers. No one can silence an exile. An exile encapsulates no need to placate anybody except for himself or herself.

Writing allows us to exploit the synergistic dynamics of the human brain including memory, the ability to engage in constructive research, visually scrutinize our private thoughts, and discuss and share an evolving linkwork of thoughts with other people.

We each sketch the story of our lives. We tell other people whom we have become by making decisions how we carry out our daily affairs, how we confront personal crisis, and when we extend comfort to other people. By talking about our secret dreams, we reveal who we hope to become. Writing changes us. A sentence on paper reflects not only who we now are, but it also exposes who we used to be.

When I pour out my hurt and sadness into the typewriter do I then begin to realize that I have created poetry!

You'll never know if you've created or will create that one story worth a million dollars. Keep writing!

I write to release. I write to feel free. I write to de-stigmatise a whole stigmatised culture. I write to challenge pre-populated norms.

When we feel pain, our pen writes a river of tears and sorrows!

You got to have your butt in the chair. You have to write the words