There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and…

“No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.”

— Joy Fielding

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that…

— Irvine Welsh

I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do…

— Zadie Smith

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little…

— James Lee Burke

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the…

— William Monahan

If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.

— Jean Kerr

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

— Earl Wilson

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

— Susan Sontag

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

— Laura Wade

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

— Leslie Charteris

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

— Larry Wall