Books Quote by Anonymous

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though…

— Max Roach

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

All my characters are different from one another, and it's like I am living so many different lives simultaneously.

— Mrunal Thakur

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a…

— Jodi Picoult

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history…

— Frederick Busch

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing