Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

— Freya Stark

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

— Gloria Swanson

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things…

— Jeff Kinney

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

— Mary Garden

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I…

— Chris Kyle

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do…

— Julia Glass

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson