Campaign Quote by Colm Toibin

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's…

— Richard Paul Evans

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much…

— Davis Schneiderman

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

— Marguerite Duras

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then…

— Gore Vidal

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami