Desire Quote by John Grant

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come…

— Asghar Farhadi

When you break the spirals of stories in the mind and learn shifting your point of view, you develop control on yourself as well…

— Senoraroy

Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective its like hearing your voice on an answering machine.…

— Slash

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on…

— Oskar Kokoschka

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream…

— Jennifer Egan

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop.…

— Jay-Z

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

For the greater part of my professional life I'd spent a lot of time trying to make myself make sense to others, or to…

— Greta Lee

So much of my life has been more focused on what I feel like I should be doing, what outside voices are telling me,…

— Rachel Sennott