Constant Quote by Ralph Ellison

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about…

— Selima Hill

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts…

— Anonymous

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision…

— James Anthony Froude

The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous…

— David Maisel

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,…

— Margaret Atwood

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

“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