America Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Once you’ve written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the…

— Neil Gaiman

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even…

— Joseph Lancaster

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my…

— Don DeLillo

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

— Michael Graves

“If Readers have prejudices, that's the writing world we live in. We must decide how to navigate it. We can't please all the Readers…

— June Casagrande

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf