Care Quote by Sam Lipsyte

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

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have…

— Per Petterson

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom.…

— Michael Cadnum

“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in one language…

— Abhijit Naskar

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between…

— Sakyong Mipham

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language…

— Rita Mae Brown