Battle Quote by Matthew Desmond

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to…

— Jonathan Ames

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories…

— Judith Viorst

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there…

— Akhil Sharma

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

— Paul Fussell

My Aunt Helen has said I should be a writer, but I don't know what I'd write about. Sam: You could write about us.…

— The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

— Margaret Atwood

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

— David Sedaris

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write…

— Jodi Picoult

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

— Dick Cavett

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a…

— Tana French

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

— Stephen Karam