Columns Quote by Anna Quindlen

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what…

— Howard Jacobson

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

— Jodi Picoult

A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to say. There…

— Monty Don

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a…

— James Surowiecki

I feel like, when I play characters, I create a space in myself that feels like the character and that doesn't go away. Somehow,…

— Greta Gerwig

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper…

— Dave Barry

I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of…

— Drew Magary

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

— Duane Swierczynski

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little…

— Lorene Scafaria

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you…

— Cassandra Clare