Body Quote by Fiona Barton

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young…

— Martin Amis

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a…

— Rosemary Wells

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the…

— Eudora Welty

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and…

— Yiyun Li

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember…

— Helen Oyeyemi

When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the…

— Ben Dolnick

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around…

— Nicholas Mosley