Celebrate Quote by William Zinsser

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is…

— Uma Nnenna

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

— Sherwood Anderson

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

— Victor Serge

Writers will be judged by what they write.

— Raymond Carver