Fall Quote by Elizabeth Wein

“Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like…

— Elizabeth Wein

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

— Tom King

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make telephone calls.…

— Judith Barrington

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this…

— Dan Chiasson

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

— Harold Pinter

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

— Shirley Hazzard

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I…

— Susan Griffin