British Quote by Adrian Lester

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

— Mark Twain

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

— Vincent Tan

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into…

— David Olusoga

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

— Mark Twain

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

— Jim Harrison

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

— George Henry Lewes

The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not…

— Michael Korda

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward