Answers Quote by Edward Abbey

“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no…

— Jens Porup

“It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the reader’s understanding…

— Maureen McLaughlin

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd…

— Eugene Ionesco

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them.…

— David Hare

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

— Paul Haggis

He who has to answer is inferior to him who questions.

— Sreenadh

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not…

— Sol Stein

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

— Patrick McGoohan

The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

— Salman Rushdie