Books Quote by Dean Koontz

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

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

— Salman Rushdie

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

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

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

— Julia Cameron

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

Writing. Love is writing.

— Hilda Doolittle

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Justin Halpern