Dark Quote by Layne Staley

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I'm a dark thoughts writer.

— Ellen Ullman

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

I write about the dark and the happy.

— Hank Williams III

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

“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 is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that…

— Mordecai Richler

I don't think I necessarily write about dark things.

— St. Lucia

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin