Compressed Quote by John Geddes

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

— Jaboukie Young-White

“Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters.”

— Christian Rudder

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I…

— George Saunders

“I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise. It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“As a world of shared ideas, Twitter is a kind of Inscape in and of itself, and a good one.”

— Joe Hill

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted…

— Ai Weiwei

I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

— Nathan Englander

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the…

— Joyce Carol Oates