Answers Quote by Eugene Ionesco

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

— Edward Abbey

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

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow…

— Brian Fallon

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

— Marjane Satrapi

Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which…

— J. E. Buckrose

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to…

— Marjane Satrapi

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz

I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people…

— Sara Sheridan

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

— Jan Neruda

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

— Paul Haggis