Duty Quote by Mary Oliver

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert”

— Minnie Estelle Miller

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“I find it very liberating—as a writer—to test the limits of my imagination; and then to propel myself beyond them!”

— Jason W. Blair

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt…

— Greg Behrendt

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that…

— Vera Nazarian

“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought…

— Lilian Gafni

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy…

— Orhan Pamuk

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our…

— Alexis De Veaux

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker