Better man Quote by Ishmael Reed

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

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

— Bei Dao

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

Writing makes you more human.

— John Updike

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks