Given Quote by Vera Farmiga

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that…

— Christina Baldwin

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for…

— Annie Dillard

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

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration...

— Leonard Bishop