Books Quote by Louise Mensch

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an…

— Matt de la Pena

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when…

— Salman Rushdie

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

— Min Jin Lee

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as…

— Salman Rushdie

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee