Books Quote by Jay Neugeboren

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

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the…

— Gloria Naylor

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

— Alberto Manguel

I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words…

— Jesmyn Ward

You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about.

— Obviously Me :p

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where…

— John Green

“Books have always been my escape - where I go to bury my nose, hone my senses, or play the emotional tourist in a…

— Jodie Foster

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't…

— Francoise Sagan