All kinds Quote by Janette Turner Hospital

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

— Thom Gunn

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a…

— Alan Lightman

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

— Roxane Gay

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

— Robby Krieger

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It…

— Pankaj Mishra

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir