Art Quote by Maria Dahvana Headley

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the…

— Nat Hentoff

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

“It was like she was a master sculptor and my words were the ball of clay in her warm palm. Brunt, Carol Rifka. Tell…

— Anonymous

“In rooms scented by dust, leather, and stone, she turns in the last of her father's dreams for her - that she will become…

— Kristin Hannah

“I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by…

— Terri Windling

I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James Baldwin and…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew their netflix…

— Gillian Flynn

“The place to practice author's voice is everywhere.”

— Victory Crayne

“I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the…

— Taylor Swift

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she…

— Hilary Mantel

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have…

— Nancy Pearl