Arguing Quote by Jim Butcher

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I wrote the worst novel ever.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little…

— Helen Fielding

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

She became my pen, paper, and inspiration.

— Raghib Clitso

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react…

— Brian K. Vaughan

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller