Doe Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

— John Cheever

When I write I am the real me.

— Ann Rinaldi

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

— Norman Mailer

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

— DJ Khaled

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

— Sonia Choquette

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Concering the power of the written word”

— Julie Hearn

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

— Nicole Brossard

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad