Books Quote by Ben Dolnick

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I…

— Rebecca Miller

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up…

— David Macaulay

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it…

— Matt Haig

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness…

— David Starkey