Book Quote by Italo Calvino

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you…

— E. L. Doctorow

I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I…

— Charles de Lint

To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to…

— Ezra Jack Keats

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own…

— Joe Abercrombie

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I…

— Yann Martel

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll…

— Maggie O'Farrell

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is…

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie