Writing Quote by Scott Berkun

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“Yes, writing is a weapon, Delphine, a bloody weapon of mass destruction. Writing is even more powerful than anything you can imagine. Writing is…

— Delphine de Vigan

“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”

— Betsy Lerner

“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”

— Alyssa Hubbard

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

— Paul Fussell

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

— Albert Camus

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might be civilized…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine