Distance Quote by Doris Lessing

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write…

— Pico Iyer

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person…

— William Stafford

Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous,…

— Laurie Sheck

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the…

— Arthur M. Jolly

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

“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

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 tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us…

— William Zinsser

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh