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Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

— Philip Schultz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

— Dan Simmons

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

— Gustave Flaubert

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

— Joe Wright

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

— Isabel Gillies

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

✗Opposing Perspectives

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anthony Burgess