Kate Quote by Alison McGhee

We write to make sense of it all.

— Wallace Stegner

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic…

— Henry Miller

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

“When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.”

— C.E.McLean

Words rule the World.

— Kishore Bansal

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

“Right? Or is writing like everything else in my life where I don't quite measure up? Loved, but not quite the Gabrielle they had…

— Stephanie Morrill

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful…

— Will Schwalbe

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer