Asking Quote by Gail Sheehy

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'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the…

— Sheila Heti

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

— Fanny Fern

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut…

— Larry Winget

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Gloria Swanson

I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's a dystopian…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my…

— Karin Slaughter

The Divorce isn't like the Da Vinci Code of TV shows. I'm not saying only a secret society is going to understand divorce. But…

— Thomas Haden Church

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

— Jeanette Winterson

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

— Ann Beattie