Affected Quote by Stanley Schmidt

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me,…

— William Gibson

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 don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

— Gore Vidal

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

There's something about fantasy and sci-fi that seems more welcoming of different ethnicities.

— Jessica Henwick

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

— Julie Smolyansky

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed