Citizens 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

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

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

— Irvine Welsh

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

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

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Mary Pipher

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach