Writing Quote by James W. Pennebaker

“people reported more positive emotions as they aged.”

— Atul Gawande

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

“I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power. The positive and negative affect on…

— Steven L. Hiller

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory…

— David Perry

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering…

— Cheryl Matthynssens

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems…

— William Styron

“As children, the events that negatively impacted our emotions, we recall and reject as adults. The incidents that positively affected us, we attempt to…

— Richard Cezar

“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as…

— Robert Grudin

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

— William Styron