Book Quote by Junot Diaz

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up…

— James Rollins

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

— Grace Paley

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would…

— Alice Munro

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

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and…

— Charlaine Harris

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

— Sarah Dessen

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi