Disappointing Quote by Barbara Hamby

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world…

— Jonathan Stalling

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

— Dan Simmons

“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible”

— Roger Rosenblatt

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human…

— Matt Redman

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the…

— Judith Barrington

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else.…

— Brenda Ueland

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end,…

— Julia Cameron

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right…

— Anne Lamott

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