Writer's Power Quotes

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.