Claims Quote by Storm Jameson

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my…

— Jonathan Coleman

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to…

— John Berger

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

— Francis Crick

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not…

— Donella Meadows

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat has to…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

— Bernard Malamud