Civilians Quote by Walter Kirn

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this…

— Natasha Rothwell

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your…

— Alan Alda

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— Jeanette Winterson

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is…

— El-P

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

— Anne Roiphe

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal…

— Henry James

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's…

— Jesmyn Ward

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the…

— Steve Biko

“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled promise of…

— Bruce Dain

“From the fissure of their ever-present double consciousness sprang the idea of the double victory, articulated by James Thompson in his letter to the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly