Care Quote by Joseph Brodsky

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

— Helen DeWitt

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it,…

— Peter Levi

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

— Etgar Keret

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error…

— Matt Gonzalez

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds…

— Jason Mraz

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the…

— Tony Hadley