Amnesty Quote by Chris Morris

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

— Pankaj Mishra

Maybe it's the spy novelist in me looking for a future plot, but I hope the U.S. and its allies are thinking how to…

— David Ignatius

Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence…

— Louay M. Safi

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get…

— Elliott Colla

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence…

— Don DeLillo

When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to…

— Lawrence Wright

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the…

— Amitava Kumar

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the…

— Maajid Nawaz

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have…

— Elliott Colla

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at…

— Patty Hearst

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

— Karan Mahajan

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

— Don DeLillo