“Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.” HumansLiteratureMoralDutyReaderActivityMassConcernRemainsCriticsEngagedEthicalIndispensableHuman ActivityVolitionBusybodies Author:Gao Xingjian
“Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.” WritingTryingKindTwoStoriesProblemHappensNextWonderAchieveReaderBalanceConcernToesUnpredictable Author:Bill Watterson
“When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.” YearsWellsMayMatterBodyLawWaitingCenturyReaderGeniusThousandDiscoveryConcernHeavenlyLengthThousand YearsObserversPosterityHeavenly BodiesKepler Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.” ThinkingWorldLooksWarPhilosophyBigsHavensParticularReaderConcernAspectStriveArguingDebateHopefullyAccomplishedPreachingAngleGovernanceBig Questions Author:George R. R. Martin
“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFactsPayAttentionFictionNovelReaderMoonResearchConcernBlueScience FictionSettingSettingsAccurateJupiterBlue Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.” PeopleWantProblemCultureLiteratureEmotionReaderConcernUniversalIntentionTurkeysTurkish Author:Orhan Pamuk
“The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.” PastYoungMoralFailingGenerationsReaderConcernSkinsNostalgiaContradictionEldersNew Generation Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor