Benefits Quote by Jose Saramago

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and…

— Jonathan Evison

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,…

— Laura van den Berg

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book…

— Patrick Duffy

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular…

— Harold Pinter

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and…

— Stacey Abrams