About Quote by John Irving

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by…

— John Updike