Book Quote by James Frey

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for,…

— James Frey

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in…

— Khaled Hosseini

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this…

— Jan Brett