Able Quote by Toni Morrison

I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

— Sadegh Hedayat

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

— Richard Peck

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it…

— Denis Diderot

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole…

— E. L. Doctorow

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

“I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.”

— Stephen Fry

Put yourself in the path of lightning,

— Valerie Jarrett

Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came…

— Maggie Smith

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

— Marjorie Holmes