Censorship Quote by Francis Bacon

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

“In the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of a stocking)…

— Roland Barthes

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be…

— William Hughes Mearns

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

— Anne Lamott

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

— Alice Childress

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

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean…

— Christa Wolf

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

— Julio Cortazar

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,…

— Margaret Atwood