Art Quote by Junot Diaz

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by…

— Piers Anthony

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of…

— William Attwood

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There…

— Keith Johnstone

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

— Steve Martin

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that…

— Wally Lamb

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

— Alfred Kazin

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra