Dear friend Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

— Philip Roth

“... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth of the…

— Sylvia Boorstein

“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent…

— Anne Lamott

“I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re…

— Chila Woychik

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or…

— Kenyon Farrow

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them…

— Virginia Hamilton

“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must…

— Ruth Tessler Goldstein

“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”

— Tobias Wolff

“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends were untrustworthy,…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it,…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez