I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the…

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how…

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had…

— Anna Todd

I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

— Sia

It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events…

— Simon Beaufoy

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

I've realised that my strength is writing around people.

— Lee Mack

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the…

— David Cook

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing.…

— Antonin Scalia

I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman