About Quote by Lisa Morton

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course,…

— Kate Morton

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the…

— Sefi Atta

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

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

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do…

— Saul Bellow

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me…

— Paul Lynch

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer