Adventure Quote by Cheryl Strayed

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because…

— Jonathan Meades

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the…

— Tom Wolfe

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

— Uzo Aduba

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

— Robin Sloan

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe.…

— Billie Eilish

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing