Away Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not…

— Dara Horn

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a…

— Nick Flynn

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very…

— James Salter

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

— Amanda Knox

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're…

— Michael Crichton

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough…

— Mark Haddon

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that…

— Ishmael Beah