Dignity Quote by Andrew Solomon

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

— Sherwood Anderson

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.…

— Franz Kafka

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis