Myself Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

— Wally Lamb

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

— Marilyn Manson

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

— Eudora Welty

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A…

— Matt Taibbi

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good…

— Lisa Edelstein

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

— Kiki Dimoula

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

— John Wesley

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

— Lana Del Rey

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I…

— Maeve Binchy

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing -…

— V. S. Naipaul