Advise Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

To write is to inform against others.

— Violette Leduc

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of…

— Virginia Woolf

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

— Zadie Smith

I write out of defiance.

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not,…

— Steven Hatfill

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

— Toni Cade Bambara

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you…

— Stephen King

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates