Courage Quote by Alice Mattison

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

— Lee Hsien Loong

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

— Jim Harrison

I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't write about…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

— Carson Kressley

“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our dress sense,…

— Susan Feehan

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that…

— Jane Rule

“A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the…

— Monique Wittig

We need to make sure we're bringing in diverse voices and not expecting everyone to be a representation of their ethnicity or their age…

— Megan Ganz

“It changes you, when you see someone similar to you doing the thing you might want to do yourself. That kind of writing--writing by…

— Scaachi Koul

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is…

— Georgie Anne Geyer