Been Quote by Arundhati Roy

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

— Min Jin Lee

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished…

— David Baldacci

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the…

— David Baldacci

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

Fiction is an act of revenge

— John Hawkes

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

— Ralph Fiennes

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and…

— Tim O'Brien

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

To write is a humiliation.

— Edward Dahlberg