Attacked Quote by Pat Conroy

“I picked this room because it was the closest," he muttered, "but hells bells, it's like walking into a pink nightmare." He shuddered and…

— Kristen Callihan

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I…

— Neil Gaiman

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political…

— Brendan Myers

I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I…

— Sydney Pollack

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to…

— Emily Susan Rapp

For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about…

— Lauren Mayberry

I still want to play for my country, I'm still ambitious. But things like that are out of my control so I'll just concentrate…

— Scott Sinclair

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce…

— Hugh Mackay

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this…

— Billy Collins

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send poems to…

— Ian Rankin

“I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing…

— Ron Carlson

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table…

— Nilo Cruz