Books Quote by Garth Greenwell

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private…

— Umberto Eco

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book,…

— Charles Bukowski

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

— J. D. Salinger

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich