Writing Quotes

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Ursula K. Le Guin
- Art
- Words
- Practice
I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Vaginal Davis
- Time
- School
- Flying

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

Ernest Hemingway
- Book
- War
- Reason
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Jonathan Kozol
- Children
- School
- Job
I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

Alexi Zentner
- Life
- Good
- Different
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton Christensen
- Time
- Writing
I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

Alex Pareene
- Writing
- Stop
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Marilyn Hacker
- Study
- Literature
- Text