Art Quote by Dorothy Allison

“When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe

“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my…

— Pat Conroy

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came…

— Terry Eagleton

“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline…

— Nancy Mellon

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee

“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.”

— Annie Dillard

“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart, justify unspeakable…

— Jonathan Shapiro

“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your own voice,…

— Lara Lillibridge

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to…

— Scott Lynch

“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite.…

— Flannery O'Connor