The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting…

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm…

— Jonathan Coleman

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

— Rafael Yglesias

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of…

— Lore Segal

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

In the fashion world, you have to make clothes to sell. You have to make clothes for the press. You have to make clothes…

— Giorgio Armani

“The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

— Lena Waithe

“Must interests be interesting? That is, must they be interesting to someone other than yourself?”

— David Levithan

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear…

— Jerry Lewis

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

— Jack Gardner

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I…

— Garry Winogrand

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

— Jane Campion

I think every person and place is interesting, and there's an interesting story behind every door.

— Tig Notaro

Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better.…

— Phil Libin