About Quote by Vikram Seth

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

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

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

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important.…

— Rod Serling

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

— Edward Albee

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem…

— Wole Soyinka

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling…

— Rob Manuel

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

— Mary Pipher

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the authorities here]…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution