Confusion Quote by Toni Morrison

“I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for the world is terribly wrong.…

— David Levithan

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes…

— David Foster Wallace

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption…

— David Grossman

“I felt melancholy, I felt joy, I felt dread, I felt a sadness so deep it cannot be described in words. I felt emotions…

— Charles Yu

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not…

— William Stafford

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

— Sean Lennon

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess.…

— Karen Russell

“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are…

— Anne Lamott

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“And so when you have lost everything, no more roads, no direction, no fixed signs, no ground, no thoughts able to resist other thoughts,…

— Hélène Cixous

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep…

— Stromae