...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

— David Foster Wallace

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the…

— China Mieville

“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own…

— David Foster Wallace

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

— Stephen King

“Writing fiction for money is a mug's game.”

— Stephen King

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? -…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.

— Janet Reno

Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage

— Italian Proverb

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all…

— Neil Gaiman

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue…

— Eric Holder

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

— Lucretia Mott

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against…

— Pope Francis

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

— August Strindberg