Action Quote by C.P. Cavafy

Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing…

— Paige

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my…

— Shirley Ann Grau

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them…

— Virginia Hamilton

I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes…

— Happy Rhodes

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is my hiding place.

— Christel Tait

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a…

— Alice James