Good Quote by George Pelecanos

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 have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell…

— Andrew Solomon

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

— David Sedaris

I like the idea of helping people help people.

— Bryan Adams

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

— John Updike

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

— Janet Evanovich

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Sevyn Streeter

I bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who haven't been…

— Debra Granik

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that…

— Brad Thor

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

— Jennifer Gilmore

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville