Crafts Quote by Franz Kafka

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

“[T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”

— Anonymous

you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For…

— Susan Cain

“She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.…

— Franz Kafka

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects…

— Bill Watterson

An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the…

— Duane Elgin

“Most words come into being first in speech, then in private writing, and then in public, published writing, which means that if the date…

— Kory Stamper

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write…

— Harlan Ellison

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

— Kiran Desai

“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”

— David Foster Wallace

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get…

— Anthony McCarten