Ants Quote by A. S. Byatt

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films…

— Grace Potter

I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that…

— Lynne Tillman

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

— Lee Ranaldo

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman