#writers

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #aspects #attention #boundaries #conscious

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

— Mo Yan

#consciences #i #i think #own #souls

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. ↗

— Susie Bright

#enormous #experience #finding #get #heard

Writers will happen in the best of families. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#families #happen #will #writers

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#ask #improvise #inspired #sometimes #times

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#away #bad #go #go away #going

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#democracy #discussion #fits #how #improvisation

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person