About Quote by Rachel Cusk

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that…

— Colson Whitehead

I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my…

— George R. R. Martin

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say…

— Jillian Medoff

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

— Anthony Horowitz

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work…

— Meryl Streep

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

— Nick Hornby

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…

— Rosellen Brown

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are…

— Jennifer Egan

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

— Jonathan Lethem

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's…

— Denis Leary

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh