Quote by Gary Lutz

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with…

— Mitch Albom

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

— Glenn Ligon

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

— Dana Spiotta

The words of the world want to make sentences.

— Gaston Bachelard

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner…

— A. E. van Vogt

“Words are life set down on paper.”

— Paulo Coelho

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

— Christopher Hitchens

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous