Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Terry McMillan Quote: 'I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships ...'

Related Quotes

I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.
Lauren Kate
Tags: People About Who
People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.
Bonnie Raitt
Tags: Music Women Men
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
Terry Teachout
Tags: Beauty Me About
Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.
Juliet Marillier
Tags: About Think More
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
bell hooks
Tags: Time About More
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
Yann Martel
Tags: Me Would Every
clouds sky heaven weather nature
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.


Leon Uris
Tags: You People About
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
Tags: You Love How
pralongia dolomites alm nature
Each play I write has its own unique origin story.


Lynn Nottage
Tags: Own Play Write
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury
Tags: About Life See
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Tags: Women You About
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan
Tags: Women Men About
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
Tags: Like More Always
I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.
Sarah Rees Brennan
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
James Patterson
Tags: Work About Very
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
Patricia Polacco
Tags: Know Very Want
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
Octavia Butler
Tags: People Very Way
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
Tags: People About Love
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
Tags: Because Know Am
dolomites mountains italy
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.


Billy Graham
Tags: God Future You