Books Quote by Barbara Pym

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,

— Anonymous

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top…

— J. E. Buckrose

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

Novel writing is solitary work.

— Mohsin Hamid

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while…

— Dean Koontz