Consumed Quote by Ayelet Waldman

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and…

— Kristin Hannah

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold…

— Anna Quindlen

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having…

— Jenny Zhang

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to…

— Natalie Merchant

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!

— Constance Marie

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme