Black Quote by Charlie Brooker

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell…

— Isabel Allende

I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world…

— Cassandra Clare

Everything kind of has a message in it.

— Jeff Baena

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

— John le Carre

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

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

— Lana Del Rey

I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we…

— Kevin Young

“Communication isn't about telling our story. That's undisciplined, self-indulgent, and often illusory. The power of communication is getting audiences to listen--and to care.”

— Helio Fred Garcia

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point…

— Martin Mull

“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

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

— Cullen Hightower

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