Certain Quote by Adam Braver

Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are ...…

— Barack Obama

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that…

— Anonymous

“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often character­ized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a seeming dilemma…

— Lyn Hejinian

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

— Eileen Pollack

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

— Sherwood Anderson

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion…

— Dana Spiotta

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out…

— Joyce Maynard

In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in…

— Hari Kunzru

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people…

— Suzanne Vega