Books Quote by Candace Bushnell

“Paying or having paid for something often makes it seem necessary; or better, more important, or more useful than it is.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet,…

— Jane Austen

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So…

— Elif Safak

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about…

— Charles Stross

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to…

— Kanye West

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks