“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
—Toni Morrison
“It’s becoming clear that writing and reading is a way of simply underscoring that human connection is important, that you can know my mind and I can know yours, which is a vastly consoling idea, and we need it.”
—George Saunders
“When other generations look back to see how and whether we were sufficient to the demands our times will have made of us, they will look at what we wrote and published and read.”
—Marilynne Robinson
“Writing, which is a kind of paying attention, can be an act of love, an illumination.”