Argument Quote by Salman Rushdie

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what…

— Bette Davis

Writers should provoke disagreement.

— V. S. Naipaul

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so…

— Simon Hoggart

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

— David Farland

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

— Hisham Matar

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

— Anne Roiphe

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr