Better Quote by Terry Pratchett

“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely…

— G.K. Chesterton

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story…

— Elizabeth Flock

I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as…

— Pankaj Mishra

“There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks…

— Eudora Welty

I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of…

— Pankaj Mishra

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the…

— K. Lee Lerner

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair,…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals…

— Mark Slouka

“the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn’t close enough, or when enough generations have passed…

— Michael Bunker

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and…

— Lu Xun