Books Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

— Ann Patchett

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But…

— Jane Smiley

“You enter a novel as you enter a house of strangers not knowing who you may meet or what might happen. Like a mirror…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!”

— Carolyn Hockley

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write…

— Hannah Kent

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself…

— Rebecca Miller