Books Quote by Eve Babitz

“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed…

— Roz Morris

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“but travel, to new places where she could swim and write, while escaping the ensnaring kitchen of life, was becoming the one prospect that…

— Caroline Moorehead

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be…

— Alyson Noel

“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely…

— Xiaolu Guo

“Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.”

— Christy Hall

“The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.”

— Lawrence Block

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón