Education Quote by Anonymous

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

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

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things…

— Tom Kitt

I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into…

— David Starkey

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still…

— Elif Batuman

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share,…

— Tobias Wolff

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you…

— Dwight V. Swain