Computer Quote by Aberjhani

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

Literary devices are used in everything you do, but more importantly in what you say.

— Mariam Eldoma

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,…

— Terry Eagleton

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need…

— Chris Abani

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and…

— Joan Didion

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite…

— Joan Didion

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint…

— Elizabeth Price

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end…

— Achy Obejas