Reason Quote by E. L. Doctorow

“Writers need readers and readers need writers”

— Caroline James

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark.…

— Suyog Ketkar

“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

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow…

— John Scalzi

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like…

— John Scalzi

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means.

— Stephanie Land

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway