Bigs Quote by Anne Enright

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new…

— Anne Enright

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher…

— Jackie Collins

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify…

— John Updike

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really…

— Henry Rollins

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything…

— Jonathan Coe

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has…

— Rachel Joyce

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished…

— Heidi Julavits

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

— John Banville

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a…

— J. K. Rowling