Personal writing Quotes

15 quotes from 13 authors

Writing for oneself can feel intimate, and these fifteen snippets capture that feeling. A handful of writers—each with their own style—share why putting thoughts on paper matters, giving you a quick, resonant boost before you pick up a pen.

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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Julia Cameron

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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

James Broughton

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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

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I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

Kwame Dawes

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Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

Lucy Dacus

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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

Laura Marling

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I prefer to not be feeling like I'm having to be fake about things that are the most dear to me in…

Mandy Stadtmiller

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“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal…

Kilroy J. Oldster

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There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if…

Lena Dunham

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What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material…

Meghan Daum

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For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and…

Dawn Lundy Martin

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“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass…

Kilroy J. Oldster

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Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is…

Mary Anne Radmacher

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We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in…

Christina Baldwin

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“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and…

Kilroy J. Oldster

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