Facts Quote by Sherwood Anderson

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

— Patrick Marber

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

— Sam Fender

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean…

— Christa Wolf

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

— Victor Serge

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute