Quotes About Writing

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
-Ray Bradbury

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
-E.L. Doctorow

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
-Charles Peguy

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
-Richard Wright, American Hunger

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
-Toni Morrison