Faces Quote by Harvey Pekar

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that…

— Louis L'Amour

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

— Rainbow Rowell

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.

— Lauv

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

— Alexander Payne

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

— Jeff Giles

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in…

— Rosanne Cash

“Unusual events (such as botulism) attract disproportionate attention and are consequently perceived as less unusual than they really are. The world in our heads…

— Daniel Kahneman

For me, it's mostly about having stuff on the street. You're walking down the street, you do it every day, and suddenly there's something…

— Ben Eine

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe -…

— John Green

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle