Book Quote by Jonathan Dee

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it…

— Sam Horn

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is…

— Julie Berry

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this…

— David Levithan

“I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought, this is…

— Julie Schumacher

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

— Zachary Cole Smith

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm…

— Alan Rickman

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken