Country Quote by Osama Alomar

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is…

— Uzodinma Iweala

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't…

— Aaron Sorkin

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it. Maybe I'll…

— Samuel Kermis

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.…

— PJ Harvey

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of…

— Michael Scott

This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for,…

— Neville Chamberlain

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of…

— Eden Robinson