Ancient Quote by George Gissing

Writing is a holy chore.

— Harlan Ellison

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

— Edmund White

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as…

— Girolamo Savonarola

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into…

— Pico Iyer

There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense,…

— John H. Groberg

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

— Edward Dahlberg

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…

— Winifred Holtby

“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t often think…

— Adam Hamilton

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those…

— Hilaire Belloc

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni