About Quote by Martin Amis

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't…

— Sally Rooney

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write…

— Len Deighton

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a…

— Louis Auchincloss

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business…

— Jerry Pournelle

When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.

— Steven Berkoff

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

— Grace Paley

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

— Timothy West

I always considered myself working class, because I was brought up on a council estate. I still do, really. I mean, I might have…

— Mark Bonnar

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…

— John Updike

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the…

— Noam Chomsky