Another time Quote by Ai Weiwei

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

— Steven Bochco

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

— Taryn Manning

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average…

— Charles Schumer

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of…

— James Forman, Jr

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest…

— Leonard Cohen

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan