Writing as Communication Quotes

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

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

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

I don't exist without writing.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?