Blame Quote by Dorothy Parker

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

— Karin Slaughter

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

— Norman Mailer

“People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call that "literature…

— Sandy Nathan

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

— Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally…

— William Gibson

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on…

— Edan Lepucki

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's…

— Terry Pratchett

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

My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out because I…

— Rupi Kaur

People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10…

— Louise Hay

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made…

— Paul Stanley