When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

- Judy Blume

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

- Justin Vernon

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

- Joel Benenson

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

- Richard Dawkins

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

- Robert Harris

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

- Will Smith