Writing as a Tool Quotes

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

Writing gave me a life.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.