Books Quote by Paul Theroux

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

— Brenda Ueland

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

— Julia Cameron

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives…

— Sidney Jourard

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson