Ability Quote by Mos Def

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

— Wilbur Smith

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you…

— Graham Greene

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best…

— Sara Sheridan

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel,…

— Henry Rollins

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as…

— Henry Rollins

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan