Angel Quote by Cassandra Clare

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

— Charlie Brooker

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

— Richard Flanagan

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by…

— Mary Jo Salter

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“A message denotes a specific, concrete statement about the world. But the forms of our media, including the symbols through which they permit conversation,…

— Neil Postman

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back…

— Lois Lowry

As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as multifaceted a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

— John le Carre

It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how…

— Neale Donald Walsch

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths