Ability Quote by Norman Mailer

“A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more…

— Nidhie Sharma

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine.…

— Bienvenido Lumbera

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with…

— Michael Finkel

“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience”

— Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that…

— Willa Cather

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters