Beauty Quote by Alice Hoffman

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

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

— Jose Antonio Vargas

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

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an…

— Dirk Benedict

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 loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

— Theodora Goss

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

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

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy