Freedom Quote by Don DeLillo

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live…

— bell hooks

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman