Believe Quote by Mandy Patinkin

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

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

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

— John Banville

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

— Joy Williams

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do…

— Nicholas Sparks

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,…

— Margaret Atwood

It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.

— Layne Staley

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

“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