„Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.“

— Margaret Atwood

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„A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.“
— Jane Austen
„We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
„Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.“
— Michel Foucault
„I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.“
— Jane Austen
„Margaret Ll. Davies writes that Janet is dying and will I write on her for The Times – a curious thought, rather: as if it mattered who wrote, or not. But this flooded me with the idea of Janet yesterday. I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.“
— Virginia Woolf
„When I decided to write a novel, I had two full time jobs and three children under the age of six, so I don’t want anyone telling me they don’t have time to write a book, but I learned to work in the middle of the night, and I still do that…“
— Diana Gabaldon