Extras Quote by Sandra Cisneros

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities…

— N. Scott Momaday

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex.…

— Tom Wolfe

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery…

— Mark Twain

It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process.

— Mikey Day

“Susan Griffin describes it as a time when "there is no intrinsic authority to my words." "I...clean off my desk. I make telephone calls.…

— Judith Barrington

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write…

— Louis Menand

People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words…

— Dax Shepard

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards…

— James Gleick

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

— Mary Pipher

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't…

— John Updike