Answering questions Quote by Max Brooks

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.

— Patrick Marber

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody…

— Ned Beauman

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't…

— Sally Rooney

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond