Books Quote by Lynne Tillman

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with…

— John Scalzi

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do…

— Dani Shapiro

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

— Tracy Kidder

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count…

— Ken Wilber

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say…

— Jillian Medoff

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest…

— Susan Orlean

I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work…

— Stefan Merrill Block