Amount Quote by Kate DiCamillo

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

— Gloria Naylor

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even…

— Ben Okri

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

I love the word 'resonance.'

— William Sanderson

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down,…

— Wayne Dyer

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

— Donald McCaig

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things…

— Pauline Oliveros