Beauty Quote by Alice Hoffman

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my desk, once…

— Alice Hoffman

Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I did not…

— Needa Muy

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them…

— Carrie Fisher

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in…

— Gertrude Atherton

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not…

— Philip Levine