Behinds Quote by Adrienne Rich

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through…

— Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Githae Mugo

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

— Stephen King

“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Mugo

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink…

— Erin Morgenstern

To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual…

— John Cheever

“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness…

— Shannon L. Alder