Asks Quote by Erica Jong

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

— Florence King

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.”

— Margie B. Klein

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

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

— Paul Haggis

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers…

— Zadie Smith

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi