First person Quote by William Zinsser

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper...”

— William Zinsser

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is…

— Isaac Asimov

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron