Community Quote by Anna Quindlen

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write…

— Bruce Springsteen

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

— Lemmy

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

— Matthew Desmond

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

— Joely Fisher

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around…

— John Trudell

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

— Dorianne Laux

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

— Jean Giono

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

— Leon Uris

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often…

— Anne Roiphe