Assist me some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. – William Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 1, Scene 2.
When you write, you are not either sex. But when you’re read you are definitely gendered. – Hilary Mantel
Authors I’ve longed to write like – but realize I actually can’t even begin to – include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago. – Helen Oyeyemi
I don’t really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. – Garry Wills