Can't change Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

— John Cheever

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political…

— Erin Gruwell

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writers have superpowers.

— Cynthia Hand

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

— Wilbur Smith

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick