Books Quote by Joan Juliet Buck

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

— Sarah Dessen

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know…

— Alice Mattison

I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like…

— Kameron Hurley

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one…

— Philip Pullman

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen