Knows Quote by Honore de Balzac

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for…

— Anita Brookner

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

— Dani Shapiro

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

— Vasily Grossman

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

— Morgan Parker

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

— C.P. Cavafy

“I have no idea what will happen when I write. One night I wrote effortlessly for hours, churning out one brilliant paragraph after another.…

— Rich Ritter

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and…

— Victoria Woodhull

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.”

— Abhijit Naskar