Doubt Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

“The writer becomes a superhero every time he or she sits down to write. We must excel ourselves with each new writing project, we…

— Rob Parnell

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

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

— John Cheever

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

— Walt Whitman

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence