Certain Quote by Cynthia Ozick

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

— Cynthia Ozick

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love.…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer