Criteria Quote by Jack Kerouac

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just…

— Jack Kerouac

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

— Richard Peck

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live…

— bell hooks

“I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some…

— Jonathan Culver

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration...

— Leonard Bishop

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln