Opportunity Quote by Lurlene McDaniel

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell…

— Andrew Solomon

I think you want to be writing about the world that we live in.

— Chris Chibnall

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

— Anthony Horowitz

I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

— Doris Lessing

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

— Sharon Olds

I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject -…

— Nicholson Baker

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

— Jenny Offill