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I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

— Sue Townsend

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work…

— James Hillman

There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in…

— Lisa Jewell

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff…

— Richard Ford

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's…

— Robert Plant

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

— Imre Kertész

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which…

— Pat Conroy

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

— George Hamilton

But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall…

— Ramona Koval

I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve…

— Amanda Schull

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo