Book Quote by Maria Semple

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't…

— Daniel H. Pink

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like,…

— Meg Wolitzer

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about. I can…

— Tanith Lee

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single…

— Nadine Gordimer

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense…

— Italo Calvino

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende