Five quotations about writing as self-discovery

“I knew
Writing Getting Startedas I wrote them (journals) that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.” – Colleen Wainwright, “communicatrix”



“Writing takes you into a confrontation of self.” –


“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” –Cyril Connolly



“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.” – Elaine Liner, “We Got Naked, Now What”



“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” –


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