Book Quote by Irvine Welsh

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure…

— Tibor Fischer

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going to run…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why…

— Michael Ondaatje

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris