Writing Quote by Nicholas Carr

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers…

— Anne Lamott

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

“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

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of…

— Will Self

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“I love how writing does so much; it can break down complex subjects to their essence, paint virtual pictures, entertain and make us smile,…

— Barbara Roy

“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see…

— Ann Lamott

“One of the most enjoyable parts of being a writer is being able to take the darker side of human nature and explore it…

— Dawn Goodwin