Israel Quote by Etgar Keret

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people.…

— Ariel Sharon

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

— Helen DeWitt

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it,…

— Peter Levi

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a…

— Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to…

— Vaclav Havel

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not…

— Kevin Spacey

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change.…

— Gloria Steinem

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead