Certain Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of…

— Pico Iyer

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us…

— William Zinsser

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

— Robert Holden

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through…

— Oz Perkins

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute