Apologizing Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

“My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and…

— T.S. Eliot

“A heart full of words And an uncooperative mouth Make an unfortunate pairing”

— Kim Holden

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not…

— Anne Bronte

“My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love." Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire”

— Shirley Hazzard

“In so many things I loved I was sadly insufficiently gifted and driven. But writing I could plod along with -- and no one…

— Lorrie Moore

“You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!”

— Raouf Ayoub

“It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity…

— Elena Ferrante

“Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.”

— Suman Pokhrel

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

— Mary Matalin

“This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me, I had…

— Rudyard Kipling

“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.”

— Cathryn Louis