Children Quote by Tom Stoppard

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

— Clive Barker

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift…

— Ray Bradbury

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every…

— Salman Rushdie

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've…

— Nicole Krauss

Every old poem is sacred.

— Horace

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have…

— John Stockton

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw