Happiness Quote by Erin Moure

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

— John Green

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of…

— John le Carré

“Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never…

— Euginia Herlihy

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

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

— Isabel Allende

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.”

— Gao Xingjian

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster