Able Quote by Robert Draper

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000…

— Kirk Cameron

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

— Dave Sim

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

— Matt Nix

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed…

— Ernest Hemingway

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

— Tom Wolfe

I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those…

— Kirk Cameron

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting…

— Linwood Barclay

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me.…

— Charles M. Blow

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

— Brian Azzarello

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed…

— Ernest Hemingway