Able Quote by Karl Ove Knausgaard

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

— Susan Sontag

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss