Help Quote by Eduardo Galeano

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see…

— Doris Lessing

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our…

— Alexis De Veaux

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton