Absolute power Quote by Brian Stableford

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Writers have superpowers.

— Cynthia Hand

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the…

— Matthew Specktor

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White