Believe Quote by Mary Oliver

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

— Philip Guston

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet…

— Rowan Williams

“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that…

— David Foster Wallace

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive…

— Henry Ward Beecher

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

— Jimmy Buffett

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies…

— Charles Bukowski

“You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!”

— Joyce Middleton

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

— Gregory David Roberts