Feelings Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

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

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

“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

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human…

— Susan Sontag

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

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski