Communication Quote by Richard Peck

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

— Gordon Lish

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

— Suzanne Vega

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”

— Carla H. Krueger

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings…

— Cathy Guisewite

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

— Mark Foster

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because…

— Anne Frank

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of imitation talking,…

— Walter J. Ong

“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because…

— Anne Frank