Bits Quote by Wole Soyinka

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted…

— Vaclav Havel

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

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

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he…

— Andre Maurois

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

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

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is…

— Wole Soyinka

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez