Credit Quote by Mollie Hemingway

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

— Pankaj Mishra

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have…

— David Puttnam

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

— Katherine Boo

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

— Joy Williams

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is…

— Clive Owen

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware…

— Robert Creeley

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary