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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that…

— Mark Vonnegut

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

— Tom King

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And…

— John Green

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

“Books are portals for the imagination, whether one is reading or writing, and unless one is keeping a private journal, writing something that no…

— PJ O'Brien