Books Quote by Junot Diaz

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”

— Ken Follett

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

— Martin Amis

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything…

— Nathan Englander

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg