A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.