Hate Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over,…

— Mark Rubinstein

The only reason to write is from love.

— Stephen Sondheim

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness…

— Shannon L. Alder

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

— Jen Lancaster

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be…

— J. A. Jance

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

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to…

— Cynthia Ozick