Answers Quote by Mohsin Hamid

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the…

— Nathan Englander

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the…

— Jodi Picoult

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Alan Cheuse