Capture Quote by Adam Haslett

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Ted Dekker

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to…

— E. B. White

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted…

— Vaclav Havel

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

— Zadie Smith