Attention Quote by Philip Pullman

And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character…

— Alex Pettyfer

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on…

— Ashish Sharma

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Strout

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because…

— Alastair Reynolds

Because of the path that I've taken, with doing the alternative films and not doing the conformist, regular movies, and not being in the…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy…

— Scott Bradfield

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

— Imre Kertész