Communicate Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into…

— F. Sionil Jose

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what…

— Terry Brooks

You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me…

— Masha Tupitsyn

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office,…

— D. B. Weiss

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the…

— Lisa Joy

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,…

— Terry Eagleton

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry