Audience Quote by Mo Yan

A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the…

— Gulzar

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

“A writer is the conscience of the world.”

— Doris Lessing

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

— Anne Lamott

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian