Amount Quote by Rex Murphy

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

— Stephen Fry

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the authorities here]…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton