Human life Quote by Philip Hensher

“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were trying to…

— Roy Casagranda

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing…

— Jared Diamond

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

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 is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

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

“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and…

— Jean Cocteau