Books Quote by Jenny Offill

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is…

— Gertrude Atherton

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull…

— Iris Chang

“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and…

— Laurie Frankel

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

— Scarlett Thomas

“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I…

— Charles Finch

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about…

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

— Eva Gutowski

I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have…

— Kameron Hurley

I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other…

— James Wright