Humanity Quote by William McIlvanney

The fairest sharing to humanity is time, 24hours for every living thing. What you do with it is up to you.

— Anonymous

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

“i am writing my way back to you.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

— Delia Ephron

“Even though I'm an ordinary writer, I too, have trouble when it come to writing along the way. But at least I manage to…

— Simi Sunny

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also…

— Sylvia Plath

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

“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

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan