Books Quote by Lyn Hejinian

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group…

— Roxane Gay

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other…

— Marco Roth

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a…

— Paulo Freire

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer,…

— Claudia Rankine

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent.…

— Elie Wiesel

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

— Francine Prose

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough…

— Paul A. Baran

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the…

— Daniel Alarcon

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

— Glenn Ligon