Carrying Quote by Peter Heller

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my…

— Omari Hardwick

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just…

— Zach Anner

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in…

— Gloria Steinem

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell…

— Andrew Solomon

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

— Roger Ross Williams

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble…

— Anonymous

With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar