Burden Quote by Alice Mattison

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the…

— Piri Thomas

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

— The D.O.C

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement…

— William Zinsser

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

— Paulo Coelho

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

— Mark Foster