Admire Quote by Horton Foote

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about…

— Patti Davis

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have…

— John Stockton

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of…

— Patti Davis

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live…

— Andre Aciman

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese