Climate Quote by Edward Albee

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best…

— Bob Shacochis

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

— Peter Carey

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted…

— Vaclav Havel

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

— Don DeLillo

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw