Books Quote by Junot Diaz

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to…

— E. B. White

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer”

— Len Deighton

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

— David M. Evans

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

— Bill McKibben

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do…

— Eric Jerome Dickey