Human consciousness Quote by Don Delillo

There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner…

— Don DeLillo

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but…

— Philip Roth

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

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

— Lauren Groff

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks