Awareness Quote by Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when you say,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to…

— Vaclav Havel

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

— Etgar Keret

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not…

— Kevin Spacey

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change.…

— Gloria Steinem

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a…

— Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

— Charles Bukowski

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It…

— William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian…

— William Faulkner

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths…

— Harlan Ellison

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is…

— Markus Zusak