Fashion Quote by Anthony Bourdain

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the…

— Don DeLillo

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

— Greta Garbo

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted…

— Vaclav Havel

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them,…

— Janet Fitch

“My purpose in writing novels is to expose man's inhumanity to man.”

— Carly Compass

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

“I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It’s my…

— Thomas Ligotti