Damn Quote by Jonathan Meades

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

— Rose Tremain

I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on the telly…

— Sam Fender

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

— Robin Sloan

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What…

— Cheryl Strayed

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write…

— Suzanne Vega

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

— Ernest Hemingway

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe.…

— Billie Eilish

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your…

— John Dufresne

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that…

— Eve Ensler

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing