Ethnicity Quote by Jim Harrison

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men.…

— Mike O'Malley

I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't write about…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the…

— Cherrie Moraga

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

— Irvine Welsh

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell