Crisis Quote by Adam Hochschild

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story,…

— Mohsin Hamid

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

— Anne Carson

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the…

— Letitia Wright

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma they long…

— Hagir Elsheikh

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing