I just like being all over the place and writing whatever…

A part of growing up in this international world is understanding and being prepared and having tools to adapt outside of the small environment…

— Lamman Rucker

It's incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny.

— Andy Jassy

Having the tools and the intangibles mean nothing unless you are surrounded by the best.

— Mohamed Bamba

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

— Sally Rooney

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

— Benji Madden

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or…

— Justin Vernon

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I…

— Jean Fritz

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a…

— Clark Gregg

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as…

— Anne Lamott

“Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas…

— John Steinbeck

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes,…

— David St. John

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to…

— Barry Eisler