Books Quote by Judith Rossner

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

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 had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I…

— Jose Saramago

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

— Jane Fallon

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write…

— William Landay

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

— David Duchovny