"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

Writing, Pain, Creativity, Protection

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"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Writing, Understanding, Expression

"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Writing, Authorship, Collaboration, Fear

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Pleasure, Play, Self

"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Writing, Creativity, Observation, Thought

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Writing, Fun

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Writing, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

"The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Writing, Journey, Ego, Discovery

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Writing, Love, Idea

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

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"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Art, Change, People, Facts

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage, Adultery, First

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

Marriage,

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

Marriage, End, Heaven, Nothing

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

Mind,

"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

Art, Baby, Gold

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

Society, Encouragement, Needs, Support

"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

Now, Years