"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so
lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four
corners."                                  -Virginia Woolf

"I only have twenty-six letters of the alphabet;
I don't have color or music. I must use my craft
 to make the reader see the colors and hear the
sounds."                                -Toni Morrison

May God keep us
From single vision.
                                             -William Blake

"To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in
 life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that
 feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those
 whom we do not know, from those unknown to us--that is
 something still greater and more beautiful because it widens
 out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things."
                                                             -Pablo Neruda

"Writing is a struggle against silence."
                                                            -Carlos Fuentes

"The person who writes out of an inner need is trying to order
 his corner of the universe; very often the meaning of an
 experience or an emotion becomes clear only in this way."
                                                            -Maxine Kumin

"Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
 It forms the quality of light within on which we predicate our
 hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into
 language, then into idea, then into more tangible action."
                                                                  -Audre Lorde