#commentary

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#advice #back #commentary #crowd #developed

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#commentary #devastating #infrastructure #iraq #money

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself. ↗

— Raegan Butcher

#poetry #prison #social-commentary #sociology #sociology

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humor #picket-fence #social-commentary #humor

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#science-fiction #social-commentary #humor

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#political-tags #politics #social #social-change #social-commentary

War is politics for everyone but the warrior. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#iraq-war #political-commentary #politics #war #war-on-terror