I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One…

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of…

— Dana Spiotta

I try not to go too crazy with what people write on social media, it's about trying to do my best.

— Miguel Almiron

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

— Elif Batuman

I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don't write anything wrong.

— Disha Patani

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or…

— Charles Dance

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work…

— PJ Harvey

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

— Dave East

I don't care about writing really.

— Ang Lee

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I…

— Matt LeBlanc

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed,…

— D'Angelo

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy…

— Jodi Picoult

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin