Acting Quote by Joan Juliet Buck

Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into…

— Jed Mercurio

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating.…

— Robert Greene

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything…

— Jonathan Coe

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do…

— Harriet Martineau

Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions…

— William Wordsworth

The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of the moments.…

— Claudia Rankine

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

— Rachel Dratch

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured…

— Garth Greenwell