Citizens Quote by Natalie Goldberg

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to employ new…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent…

— Anne Lamott

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to…

— Anne Lamott

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If you only…

— Roselle Angwin

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

— Steven Bochco

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