Abandoned Quote by Jonathan Coe

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished…

— Heidi Julavits

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I…

— Leigh Bardugo

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far…

— Ben Fountain

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the…

— Nicole Krauss

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to…

— Frank Luntz