“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.” WayWantWritingSelfStatesOrderSituationPovertyConstant Author:Tom Waits
“As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.” NeedsWritingWarPovertyImmigrants Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.” WorldWritingEyeTodayLanguageFictionResponsibilityVisionPovertyRolesAwarenessEarsIncreaseTongueSensesDeprivedPoorestCripples Author:Anais Nin