Tom Clancy
“Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.”
Mark Strand
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do, is re-engage people with their own humanity. Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou
“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects — nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs — ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I’m most happy to be a writer.”
Maya Angelou
“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
Saul Bellow
“Even writers need relief from words.”
Sarah Vowell
“I talked incessantly about being a writer and read books about writing and imagined, in great detail, my life as a writer. I did everything except write… Finally I sat down and thought very seriously about exactly what it took to be a writer. I came to the conclusion that one thing, absolutely, was required: writing.”
Kate DiCamillo