Bores Quote by Mark Twain

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank,…

— Hisham Matar

Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of…

— Peter Elbow

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards…

— James Gleick

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard