Appearance Quote by Samuel Johnson

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment.…

— William Stafford

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

— Natalie Goldberg

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer,…

— John Stuart Mill

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson