Change Quote by PJ Harvey

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

— Ronald Frame

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose…

— Raul Castro

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten…

— Bertie Carvel

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often…

— Linda Ronstadt

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have…

— Nicholas Hoult

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe…

— Jay McInerney

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets…

— Lorin Stein

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

— Lucrecia Martel

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat