America Quote by Zadie Smith

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have…

— Angie Thomas

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines.

— Luca Toni

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a…

— Diana Peterfreund

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

— Stefan Heym

My books have all generated controversy.

— Helen Fielding

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— Arundhati Roy

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood