Cents Quote by Anne Roiphe

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes,…

— Edward Abbey

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into…

— Christopher McDougall

The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to…

— Jodi Kantor

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as…

— Edward Albee

“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a…

— Julian Young

“A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven,…

— George will

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and…

— Vito Acconci

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich