Burden Quote by Amy Tan

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

— Lynn Coady

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

— Martin Yan

We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the…

— Nick Goepper

We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right…

— David Banner

We represent a culture that has our own struggles, and me as a Mexican queer woman, I definitely have plenty struggles tacked on to…

— Snow Tha Product

“She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing,…

— Anthony Doerr

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and…

— Margaret Thatcher

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a…

— Kate Morton