Baby Quote by Harry Crews

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

— Salman Rushdie

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it's a…

— Sabaa Tahir

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

— John le Carre

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while…

— Dean Koontz

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

— Evelyn Waugh

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

— Barbara Kingsolver