Art Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

— Patti Smith

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page…

— Connie Nielsen

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them…

— David Rakoff

What writing does is to reveal.

— Rita Dove

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write…

— Mark Twain

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem