Art Quote by Anonymous

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the…

— Anne Lamott

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

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 means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is.…

— Dave Hickey

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau