Some people have written that my writing has helped them…

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic…

— Margaret Mahy

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

— PJ Harvey

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your…

— Julia Cameron

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

— Joshua Prager

“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.”

— Ruskin Bond

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

“writing it helped me to believe it. It staked some claim on the truth.”

— Amanda Lindhout

Life is written in PEN, there's no erasing what you've already written, so keep writing.

— Anonymous

“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline

“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I…

— Walt Whitman

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

— John Baldessari

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser