Books Quote by Colson Whitehead

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

— Salman Rushdie

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's…

— Margaret Mead

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 realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

— Sherry Glaser

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

— Gloria Steinem

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put,…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

— Bill Hicks

“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after…

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Norman Mailer

I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your…

— Eva Amurri

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

— George Bernard Shaw