Delivery Quote by J. B. Priestley

“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY”

— Janice Lane Palko

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

— Edna O'Brien

“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.”

— David Mitchell

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

— Wole Soyinka

A woman goes through many things when she delivers a child and even during the pregnancy phase.

— Aditya Narayan

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything…

— Harry Crews

Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do…

— Marianne Williamson

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

— Susie Orbach

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

— Salman Rushdie

“Creation of a pregnant imagination.”

— Delano Johnson

“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”

— Norman Mailer

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was…

— Ayelet Waldman