Facts Quote by Susan Sontag

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of…

— Esther Dyson

I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was…

— Robert Greene

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

— Terry Southern

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do not intend…

— John C. Calhoun

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

— Kelley Armstrong

Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy…

— Gail Collins

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

— Doris Lessing

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that…

— Elliott Carter

For me, learning stuff has always been a voyage of discovery and if it isn't, then I didn't see the point of it.

— Adrian Lester

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

— Anna Quindlen