Books Quote by Steven Heighton

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour,…

— Steven Heighton

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your…

— Valerie Sherwood

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

— James Schuyler

My interest in writing is not new.

— Richa Chadha

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

— Hallie Ephron

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of…

— Morris West

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

— Jonathan Carroll

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I write what I'm interested in.

— Lisa See

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss