I write to establish, if only in fiction, some permanence to it all. ~ Doris Sanders

My mother raised me to be a writer. ~ Pat Conroy

I talk out the lines as I write them. ~ Tennessee Williams

I type in one place, but I write all over the house. ~ Toni Morrison

I borrowed a typewriter from my next-door neighbor and changed my life. ~ Vertamae Grosvenor

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel. ~ Edna Ferber

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible. ~ Edward Blishen

Writing teaches us our mysteries. ~ Marie De L'Incarnation

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. ~ Iris Murdoch

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. ~ Diane Ackerman

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened. ~ Sherwood Anderson, Collected Short Stories

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