Able Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the…

— Nick Blaemire

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either…

— Matt de la Pena

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism…

— Rebecca Miller

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

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