Baby Quote by Anonymous

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything…

— Harry Crews

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

— May Sarton

“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.”

— Lydia Larue

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

— John le Carre

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”

— Norman Mailer

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

— Ann Brashares

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or…

— Samantha Shannon

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace