Affair Quote by Kate Zambreno

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be…

— Kate Zambreno

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

— Neil Gaiman

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to…

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go…

— E. L. Doctorow

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction -…

— Michelle Gagnon

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy…

— Maggie Shipstead