Disingenuous Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop…

— Edward Bond

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I…

— Alice Sebold

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.”

— Steven Magee

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

— Ellen Glasgow

The midwife of history is violence.

— Franz Joseph I of Austria

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi