Ability Quote by Tom Brokaw

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell…

— Jerzy Kosinski

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

— Nigel Kneale

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Wole Soyinka

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

— Adrian Tomine

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

— Wole Soyinka

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

— Hiro Murai

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with…

— George Stigler

For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and…

— Wyatt Cenac