Agenda Quote by Janet Evanovich

“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.”

— Connie Willis

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

— Kirsha Kaechele

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that…

— Zadie Smith

If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to…

— Lisa Jewell

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I…

— Yann Martel

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their +2 mace…

— Jeff Gerke

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read…

— Annie Dillard

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want,…

— Jackie DeShannon

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined…

— Joe R. Lansdale