Able Quote by Lauren Oliver

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be…

— Francis Fukuyama

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like…

— Kameron Hurley

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other…

— Leonard Mlodinow