Books Quote by Anne Lamott

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

— Flannery O'Connor

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one…

— Anthony Burgess

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

— Tanith Lee

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

— Kathleen Rooney