Culture Quote by Cherrie Moraga

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written…

— Wole Soyinka

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men.…

— Mike O'Malley

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

“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

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

— Edmund White

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as…

— Helene Cixous