Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally sensitive.
Politicians are better liars than writers.
A writer without his country is nothing.
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.