Detest Quote by Voltaire

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment…

— Umberto Eco

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your…

— Ann Patchett Truth and Beauty

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful…

— Christopher Milne

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

— Aaron Sorkin

“Writing to me is a way to get your feelings and ideas out. It is something everybody is capable of.”

— Katherine Powers

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children…

— Sylvia Plath