Art Quote by Erskine Caldwell

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

— Chris Vance

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to…

— Flannery O'Connor

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

— Willie Morris

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They…

— Francine Prose

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

— Michael Connelly

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured…

— Lord Acton

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine…

— Wole Soyinka

“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.”

— Bryan Eisenberg

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

— Amanda McBroom