Attention Quote by Lawrence Block

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own…

— Joe Abercrombie

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing it, but…

— Drew Magary

I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me.

— Peter Morgan

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

— Michel Houellebecq

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian