70 Quotes About Writing-memoir

I wish to create a piece of work that produces a permanent mark in the record book of human existence. I also write to insulate myself from leading a meaningless life. Awareness of an inescapable mortality urges me to write at a frantic pace, in a hysterical attempt to assign a purpose to my life by creating something external that endures.

Critical writing is one way to encounter reality by penetrating our cherished illusions. Writing strips away falsities and enables us to perceive our essential nature under a new spotlight.

Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.

Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to employ new perceptions to center oneself in a world filled with strife, conflict, violence, affection, beauty, splendor.

The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express everything that they know. Secondly, to gain a better understanding regarding concepts such as truth, beauty, love, friendship, loyalty, freedom, and the reason for existence by attempting to express in words what these ideas mean to them.

Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with other human beings.

All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.

Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.

Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create the spectrum that transliterates our experiences.