Books Quote by Erica Jong

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of…

— Michael Scott

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience…

— Iain Banks

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best…

— Karl Kraus

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire:…

— Randall Wallace

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but…

— Leon Uris

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing…

— Danielle Trussoni

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the…

— Anne Rice