Books Quote by F. Paul Wilson

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

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 most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally…

— Jenny Han

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

— Lewis Black

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

— Malachy McCourt

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten…

— Michael Dirda

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

— Haruki Murakami

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.

— Virginia Woolf