Astonishment Quote by E. Lockhart

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also,…

— E. Lockhart

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

— Dana Spiotta

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush

What an astonishing thing a book is.

— Carl Sagan

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it…

— George Steiner

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen