Silk Quote by Theodora Goss

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will…

— Lois Duncan

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed…

— Ted Dekker

You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it…

— Russell Banks

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and…

— Karl Kraus

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach