Appearance Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

— Lance Morrow

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

— Italo Calvino

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

— Eppu Nuotio

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing…

— Dorianne Laux

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or…

— Rebecca Solnit

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how…

— Garrison Keillor