Aggression Quote by Ted Solotaroff

“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing, the writing…

— Roland Barthes

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing…

— George Saunders

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance,…

— Edna Ferber

“I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that’s the deepest motivation, and…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler

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