Change the world Quote by John Barth

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

— Henry James

“Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it’d better be interesting. If you don’t have anything interesting to say, don’t…

— Candace Bushnell

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.

— Stuart Blumberg

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and…

— Kurt Loder

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the…

— Anonymous

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

— Daniel Woodrell

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with…

— John Irving