Needs Quote by Jennifer Gilmore

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

— Edward Albee

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 certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

— Irvine Welsh

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

— John Updike

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie