Anything Quote by Lorrie Moore

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong…

— Jeffrey Archer

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has…

— Niyi Osundare

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

People just usually think I'm someone else. They'll look at me twice, and I'll just say, 'Not Ellen Page.'

— Shannon Woodward

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think…

— Michael Koryta

Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the…

— Carl Safina

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct…

— Pete Townshend

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had…

— Casey Nicholaw

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's…

— Jami Attenberg

I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney…

— Scott Wilson

I say to those people who are desperately trying to get healthy, in those moments where you feel like you can't go any further,…

— Mo'Nique