I think by writing about a place with great specificity…

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

— Greta Gerwig

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought…

— Jane Wiedlin

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

— Nas

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

— Brian Molko

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

— Walter Mosley

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein

“Writing is a place and getting there is the real art,” Otto Cristóbal Almeida.”

— Samuel Zamarripa

Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction…

— Sean Michael Wilson

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome…

— Kathy Acker

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my…

— Etgar Keret

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

— Theodor Adorno

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley