Books Quote by Gillian Flynn

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

— Richard Flanagan

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before…

— Billy Bob Thornton

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it.…

— Daniel Kaluuya

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

— Carlos J. Cortes

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without…

— Jennifer Egan

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

I try not to be too precious about my writing, and I try to be willing to walk away from it for a few…

— Maggie O'Farrell