About Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it…

— Matt Haig

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of…

— Peter Handke

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope my books…

— Margaret Maddocks

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the…

— Orhan Pamuk

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally…

— William Gibson

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance…

— Michael Silverblatt

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you…

— Ian Mcewan

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren