Ends Quote by David Leavitt

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those…

— Audre Lorde

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

— Jay Griffiths

“Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.”

— Matthew Norman

“She shivered in silence but those silences made a thousand conversations.”

— Aquib Ali

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice…

— Margaret Cho

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even…

— Audre Lorde

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

— Sophie Hannah

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing…

— John Steinbeck

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to…

— Jennifer Weiner

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

— John Steinbeck

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag