Birthright Quote by Larry Levis

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

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 is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in…

— Bell Hooks

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the…

— Judith Barrington

“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing, and I…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world…

— Jack Heffron

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

— Hope Edelman