Pearl S. Buck--"I am not a humanitarian. It's just that a writer must be involved in the mainstream of life in order to write, and I cannot endure disorder in any form. When I become involved and find a situation that is not right, then I must try to do something to change it. But it is the artist's sense of order that leads me to undertake such a cause as displaced children, not any humanitarian feelings. I am a writer, and my work is to write books."