Epiphany Quote by Jenny Holzer

“My epiphany: Printed words were the shadows of referents. Things: rock, sand, onion. Ideas: carpool, justice, maximization, irrevocability. Paragraphs were composite shadows of the…

— Tim Horvath

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop…

— Matt Fraction

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

— Will Self

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.”

— Rabih Alameddine

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read…

— Carl Sandburg