Vanessa Dyne

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”
― Jincy Willett, The Writing Class

“People are always saying these things about how there's no need to read literature anymore-that it won't help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code for computers. More young people should go into STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. And that all sounds to be true and reasonable. But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm different. It's hard to put into words, but it's true. Words matter.”
― Meg Wolitzer