Cartography Quote by Gilles Deleuze

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

— Jonathan Ames

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

— Theodor Adorno

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to…

— Aberjhani

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst