Entitled Quote by Cynthia Ozick

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

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers…

— Brian Stableford

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and…

— Salim Akil

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill