Beckett Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

— Jaboukie Young-White

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

— Nathan Englander

“...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and…

— John Geddes

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I…

— George Saunders

You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones.

— Celeste Ng

I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Every time you make a tweet, a writer develops writer's block.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into…

— Lydia Davis

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?”

— Dan Savage

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes