My natural orientation has never been among a community of…

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

— Alice Mattison

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out…

— Tomi Adeyemi

“My hope is that you read these pages and know you aren’t alone when you submit your short work. You are part of a…

— Windy Lynn Harris

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in…

— Rachel Kushner

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are…

— Rachel Kushner

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic…

— Rachel Kushner

Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“In today's business/social world... if people aren't talking about you, you're not relevant.”

— Ted Rubin

“The social world of Ibsen’s plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway; the long,…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

— Don Tapscott

“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor’s…

— William Olaf Stapledon

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with…

— Ian McEwan

“And the transformation in our social world, in terms of technology-based communication rather than face-to-face conversation, is huge. In texts, tweets, and e-mails we…

— Mona Dekoven Fishbane

“ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.”

— James Davison Hunter