Flash Quote by Jeanne DuPrau

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding…

— Virginia Woolf

“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to…

— Italo Calvino

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

— Alice Childress

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the…

— Gautama Buddha

“For me writing is light, a radiance that captures everything in a fine profile. This light searches and illuminates, it is a safe place…

— Yvonne Vera

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway