Books Quote by Imre Kertész

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up…

— David Macaulay

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

— Wally Lamb

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary…

— Brad Listi

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

— Roddy Doyle

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in…

— Ben Lerner

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster