Capitalism Quote by Wole Soyinka

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.”

— T.J. Mihaila

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set…

— M. Ward

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

— James A. Michener

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

— Albert Camus

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman…

— Don Delillo

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little…

— John Green

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

All great art and literature is propaganda.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

— George Orwell