Books Quote by Don

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one…

— David Berman

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to…

— Kate Atkinson

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans…

— Nicholas Sparks

“I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to…

— Neil Young