Age Quote by George Edward Woodberry

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them…

— Thomas Paine

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

— Aharon Appelfeld

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the…

— Doris Lessing

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear…

— Edward Sapir

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin…

— Juan Goytisolo

Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the…

— Jessica Hagedorn