Confession Quote by George V Higgins

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on…

— Victor Hugo

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

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

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers…

— Brian Stableford

“They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Writers have superpowers.

— Cynthia Hand