“ Art uses truth and beauty—both of which can be quite ugly, even as that ugliness is transcended—to foster change, growth, love, perception, friendship. Something that doesn’t do that can be great. But… Colin Fleming
“ I don’t think there’s a less elitist thing on earth to do than to try and reach out and connect with another human being . . . And that’s what the best writing does, that’s what art does. It looks a r… Colin Fleming
“ I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure—it’s pressure release. Roxane Gay
“ As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know. Billy Marshall Stoneking
“ What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly! Matthew Catania
“ We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show. Annie Dillard
“ This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bit… Willow Madison
“ Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality. D. Anne Paris
“ I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. Gina McKnight
“ Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ A voice is a product of the writer’s own Pandora Box of insight, insecurities, bravado, modesty, humility, affection, understanding, and confidence. In short, a voice reflects the writers’ sangfroid.… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient. Stephen King
“ A writer must expect other people to criticize their work and open-mindedly consider all worthwhile suggestions. Martial arts master Bruce Lee advised anyone attempting to master a difficult enterpris… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. Mary Lawrence
“ Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. Robert Louis Stevenson
“ It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world… Flannery O'Connor
“ Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can’t say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote Sahara Sanders
