Book Quote by Andrew Solomon

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if…

— George Orwell

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand…

— Dominique Jackson

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down…

— Jimmy Barnes

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course…

— Nat Hentoff

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric…

— Karin Slaughter

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy…

— Sue Grafton

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those…

— Rick Moody