Historical Quote by Patrick deWitt

With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding…

— David B. Coe

“What the two views hold in common is establishing the historical setting in the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200).”

— Kenneth A. Mathews

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

— Louis Untermeyer

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that I felt.

— Gracie Abrams

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope…

— Noel Gallagher

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to…

— Khaled Hosseini

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

— Paul Auster

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

— Sally Phillips

“Nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.”

— Margaret Atwood

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

— Ivan Illich