Articles Quote by Amos Oz

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to…

— Michel Foucault

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is…

— Sean Penn

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other…

— Christie Hefner

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't…

— Richard Greenberg

So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own…

— Nina Shaw

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

— Michael Josephson

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I…

— Geoff Dyer

All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my…

— Etgar Keret

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go…

— E. L. Doctorow

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

— Sam Shepard