Focus Quote by Celeste Ng

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

— Celeste Ng

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but…

— Donald E. Westlake

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates