Believe Quote by Ishmael Reed

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to…

— John Berger

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the…

— Daniel Kahneman

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

— Stephen Fry

“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell you why,…

— William Saroyan

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

— Maya Angelou

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and…

— Francesca Marciano

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

— Margaret Anderson

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it…

— Don DeLillo

“Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control,…

— Rebecca West

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline