Book Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined…

— Alice Mattison

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we…

— John Updike

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos