Communicate Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney

“Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.”

— Ariel Levy

I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they are very…

— Ory Okolloh

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it…

— Alexander Chee

I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

— Shelley Berman

There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing literary fiction…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or…

— James Payn

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates