Color Quote by Tibor Kalman

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

— Dave Sim

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans.…

— N.K. Jemisin

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to…

— Bruno Dumont

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

— Antonio Tabucchi

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter…

— Regina King

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same…

— N. K. Jemisin

I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are…

— Neill Blomkamp

Whether these were liberal publications or conservative publications, whether they were mainstream or slightly to the side of the mainstream; out of the mainstream,…

— Jules Feiffer

As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way.

— Jeffrey Walker