Books Quote by Judith Guest

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

— Craig Ferguson

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year…

— Charles Stross

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar.…

— Justin Cartwright

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.'…

— Susan Minot

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel.…

— Anne Tyler

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend…

— Porochista Khakpour

“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of…

— Wisława Szymborska

“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long…

— Ally Condie

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

— Anonymous

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I…

— Kingsley Amis