Accepting Quote by Melissa Febos

In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed…

— Amy Purdy

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy…

— Orhan Pamuk

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

— Erica Mena