Doe Quote by Philip K. Dick

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears,…

— Helen Keller

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

— Jami Attenberg

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I think you want to be writing about the world that we live in.

— Chris Chibnall

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

— Gloria Naylor

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

— Peter Hedges

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach