Books Quote by Anonymous

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

— Laura van den Berg

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

— Lawrence Welk

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months,…

— Laura van den Berg

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death…

— Rick Moody

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

— Philip Roth

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers…

— Amos Oz