Writing as Activism Quotes

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.